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Jagex, the UK’s largest developer and publisher of online games, is looking for an experienced Software Engineer to play a key role in our Analytics and Data Science team.
The Studio’s goal is to build a new gaming platform to allow our new games to integrate with at ease. Your team’s goal is to develop a best in class Analytical Data Platform able to deliver valuable data insights and dashboards out of the big data generated by our players, this data is critical to the product teams, so that they can understand what the customers want and where their pain points are.
You will be working in an exciting and vibrant environment, you will be engaged in architectural designs, cutting edge technologies testing and profiling, evaluating software solutions and programming.
How you can contribute
- Develop clean and well-structured code using design patterns and best practices
- Participate in all aspects of agile software development and software lifecycle, including high level design, architecture definition, implementation, testing, deployment
- Define best practices and processes, seeking to continuously improve and streamline development practices
- Create software and tooling necessary for build and deployment pipeline automation
- Mentor and coach the other team members
What we need
- Gamer at heart – we expect our employees to be product focused at all levels
- Expert knowledge and experience in AWS Services (Lambda, S3, EMR, DynamoDb, etc.)
- Proven history of adopting production related processes, deployment pipelines, reviews
- Experience deploying applications on Kubernetes Clusters
- Deep understanding of design patterns and good code practices
- Understanding of OO Python
What we offer
If you join us you can expect a competitive salary and great benefits like fully paid for gym membership, bonus entitlement, private health care, flexible working, cycle repair and fresh fruit delivered to your team every day. We also have GREAT coffee machines, an onsite canteen and pub and an in-studio cinema! Expect regular team events as well as EPIC company-wide parties to celebrate our successes.
Does this sound like you? We'd love to hear from you! Get in touch.
Feel like you fit this role, but don’t meet all the requirements? We strive for fresh perspectives, so as long as you can demonstrate how your attitude and other abilities might make up for any gaps we would welcome your application!
Jagex are an equal opportunities employer and positively encourages applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates regardless of sex, race, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, marriage or civil partnership, pregnancy or maternity, religion or belief.

Jagex Ltd, the UK's largest developer and publisher of online games, is looking for a talented Head of Influencer Management to play a key role. Reporting to the Director of Community, you’ll be part of the leadership team that shapes the future of Jagex partner programs, streamer relationship building and collaborations with all our influencers.
This role will align our development and publishing teams in how we work with content creators to provide a diverse and fun collaborative venture which helps us bring exceptional viewing experiences to our players.
This is an amazing opportunity to be at the heart of delivering a wide variety of titles from a stable developer/publisher, and requires an experienced, sharp and keen individual with a passion for online games.
As part of your role, you will:
- Build and shape future partnership programs for RuneScape and Old School RuneScape streamers and content creators
- Foster relationships with current influencers and onboard our future creators, while identifying ways to help level up their craft
- Track and manage collaborations with streamers to ensure they feel supported and connected through the process
- Work as part of a multidisciplinary team to advocate for players and influencers, sharing their passion for RuneScape with Jagex and the community at large
- Design strategies that focus on elevating the phenomenal work our community creates, provide them with resources to help excite players with new content, and identify new and exciting opportunities in the creator ecosystem
- Work in a fast-paced environment managing multiple deliverables and projects at once
- Advise and consult with teams across Jagex, developing standard methodologies for collaborating with RuneScape streamers, and helping add tangible value for players, content creators, and Jagex
- Define key performance indicators to set goals for and track the performance of our creators and streamers to help your teams gain and maintain a data-informed perspective on their work
WHAT WE NEED
- Socially Connected: You spend a lot of your time on Twitch, YouTube, Instagram - you relate to and are connected with many streamers and influencers, and you have creative ideas on how to help level up their craft to get them to where they need to be.
- Zen Attitude: When things are falling apart around you, you can stop, assess, prioritize, and move towards practical solutions rather than being pulled in a bunch of different directions.
- Leadership: You know how to inspire, teach, and communicate your vision to others effectively, both within your team and to other stakeholders. Jagex is not a place for people who want to be passive and you’ll be expected to get going quickly and be able to cite examples of how you have effectively influenced teams in the past.
- Drive: You grab the bull by the horns and you’re not comfortable waiting for other people to guide you. You enable your team to innovate and surprise you. You can work independently or collaborate as part of a larger team, and usually both at the same time
- Experienced: You have at least three years’ experience creating streaming content and managing/collaborating with streamers in the community. You know how to support an affiliate streamer, a partnered one, and can speak to the differences between them. This is the type of work you live for, and you’ll be able to articulate that passion through past projects and future goals.
- A gamer: You have a deep understanding PC gaming and the titles that core gamers play. This understanding not only translates to playing games, but the communities that love them as well. Ideally you are a RuneScape fanatic and bring that passion for the game with you.
Open Date: 14/05/2019
Close Date: 11/06/2019
Location: Cambridge
Salary: Competitive

Our teams are the architects of fantastic realms, the creators of quests, the writers of history, the makers of legends. At our studio headquarters in Cambridge, UK, we’re strengthening these teams that bring life to our existing living games and building out teams to create brand new titles, both within the RuneScape universe and beyond.
We’re looking for a talented creative to join our rapidly expanding Marketing team.
As Director of Creative & Video Services you will oversee the production of all Marketing & Commerce assets across the Jagex and 3rd Party Publishing Portfolio.
As we grow the RuneScape franchise by launching on new platforms, engaging with consumers in new and exciting ways and in new languages we need an experienced creative director to help define the creative vision across brand activations, performance marketing, Runefest, social & community content, competitive gaming, CRM and more!
As part of the Marketing leadership team you will work closely the Brand & Product Marketing and Development teams in defining the product positioning and creating the visual identify for our existing portfolio and future games.
You will have 2 direct reports (Dept Heads) and be responsible for a team of 18.
HOW YOU CAN CONTRIBUTE
- Contribute creative solutions and innovations that strengthen our marketing offering and support strategic business goals
- Define the franchise visual identity working in collaboration with Brand & Product Marketing and Development team
- Oversee the production of high-end Marketing assets that will support the launch of our games and throughout their lifecycle
- Deep understanding of digital platforms and the dynamics of data driven performance marketing
- Build, lead and mentor a multi-disciplinary creative team in fulfilling their creative potential by encouraging an effective art critique and a ‘strive for excellence’ art culture
- Create quarterly, yearly and multi-year franchise creative plans
- Experience authoring marketing art style guides (both IP and Franchise level)
- Knowledge of best practice pipelines to bring game assets to marketing
- Collaborate with key stakeholders across User Acquisition, Brand, Research, Creative, Social and Community to drive best in class Marketing campaigns
- Support the Exec team with board presentations
ESSENTIAL REQUIREMENTS
- Extensive experience as a senior creative lead
- Proven experience as a department head
- Worked on at least 2 x AA campaigns
- Significant experience working across multiple channels (Web, Mobile, Social, CRM etc)
- Strong graphic/illustration skills, able to bring ideas, concepts and stories to live though concise pitches
- Scientifically creative, able to digest data from digital channels and use to inform creative direction
- Excellent project management and communication skills, ability to work across multiple business units and stakeholders
- Passion for videogames preferably in MMO or RPG genre
WHAT WE OFFER
If you join us you can expect a competitive salary and great benefits like fully paid for gym membership, bonus entitlement, private health care, flexible working, cycle repair and fresh fruit delivered to your team every day. We also have GREAT coffee machines, an onsite canteen and pub and an in-studio cinema! Expect regular team events as well as EPIC company-wide parties to celebrate our successes.
Does this sound like you? We'd love to hear from you! Get in touch.

Home to the iconic massive multiplayer online role-playing game RuneScape and its extended family of adventurous titles, we’re a leading games studio that places our players at the heart of everything we do.
We’ve welcomed over 250 million players to RuneScape’s world of enthralling fantasy and, together with our team of passionate game creators, our community helps to shape how our games evolve.
From casting votes on future game content, to interacting with the studio teams in live streams and in chat, we also join together in person at our celebrated fan convention, RuneFest.
Together with our players, we’re united as one Jagex tribe. Together we’re building deep and engaging multiplayer gaming experiences for players everywhere.
HOW YOU CAN CONTRIBUTE
Jagex is looking for a Marketing Artist with additional knowledge of graphic design to join its fast-paced creative services team to help in the creation of their art assets for promotional purposes. This role is perfect for someone with a good flexible range of skills in 2D art, 3D art and graphic design.
As a marketing artist, it will predominantly be your job to create artwork that showcases specific pieces of content from our games in the most visceral and exciting way possible. From showcasing new pieces of armour or weapons to unusual creatures using either 2D illustration methods or 3D capture. You will be working on a large variety of projects beyond artwork including typography and UI design.
As part of your role, you will:
- Produce exceptional 2D and 3D artwork for promotional purposes.
- Produce creative assets with promotional messages
- Produce interesting and intuitive UI for time limited events
- Collaborate with key stakeholders on any given project.
- Use previous data to guide future projects
- Work from a brief, from concept to final launch.
- Follow multiple product brand guides.
WHAT WE NEED
- Exceptional 2D illustration skills
- Good understanding of 3D and associated software
- A great foundation knowledge of graphic design principles
- Proficiency in the use of Adobe Suite, including Photoshop, Illustrator and inDesign.
- A good eye for colours, typography, design and composition.
- Excellent communication skills
WHAT WE OFFER
If you join us you can expect a competitive salary and great benefits like fully paid for gym membership, bonus entitlement, private health care, flexible working, cycle repair and fresh fruit delivered to your team every day. We also have GREAT coffee machines, an onsite canteen and pub and an in-studio cinema! Expect regular team events as well as EPIC company-wide parties to celebrate our successes.
Does this sound like you? We'd love to hear from you! Get in touch.
Jagex are an equal opportunities employer and positively encourages applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates regardless of sex, race, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, marriage or civil partnership, pregnancy or maternity, religion or belief.

Home to the iconic massive multiplayer online role-playing game RuneScape and its extended family of adventurous titles, we’re a leading games studio that places our players at the heart of everything we do. We’ve welcomed over 260 million players to RuneScape’s world of enthralling fantasy and, together with our team of passionate game creators, our community helps to shape how our games evolve. From casting votes on future game content, to interacting with the studio teams in live streams and in chat, we also join together in person at our celebrated fan convention, RuneFest.
Together with our players, we’re united as one Jagex tribe. Together we’re building deep and engaging multiplayer gaming experiences for players everywhere. We continue to recruit massively into RuneScape and RuneScape Old School as they have more platforms and expansions to conquer, we’re now also undertaking the exciting challenge of building up our company with Unreal Engine 4 experience.
Acting as the commercial vision holder you will work collaboratively with the production and publishing teams to help shape the game’s overall product proposition and commercial strategy. This is an amazing opportunity to be involved at the very start of the development of a major new title and requires a sharp and keen individual with a passion for PC gaming and believes in the potential of cross-platform experiences.
HOW YOU CAN CONTRIBUTE
- Working for the Executive Producer in executing the on the vision and product strategy across the company
- Working with publishing to put together and execute the go to market plan for the title
- Collaborating with our Creative Director to create the commercial vision and monetisation plan for the game
- Once the game is live you will utilise extensive game analytics and analysis to monitor game performance and KPIs, identifying new opportunities to increase user conversion, retention, and monetisation.
- Own the short- mid- and long-term product strategy in line with the Brand and Product roadmap.
- Actively contribute to the management and strategic development of the game to ensure commercial goals are achieved
- Foster strong relationships with internal development team to ensure a collaborative approach to achieving product goals.
- Manage player-facing communications and in-game events
- Understand the player community, ensuring player sentiment and feedback is considered in every step of development
WHAT WE NEED
- Creative mindset with an ability to steer the product vision utilising your extensive knowledge of the market
- Highly organised and able to time-manage, delegate and deliver workloads effectively
- A passionate gamer willing to be part of a fun, hard-working team
- Proven experience in managing the successful launch and ongoing service of MMO like titles
- An expert on gaming industry trends and the competitor landscape
- Proven experience delivering product plans which maximize revenue
- Highly analytical, with and excellent understanding of statistics with the ability to interpret with confidence and whilst making and implementing recommendations
- Strong, relationship and influencing skills
WHAT WE OFFER
If you join us you can expect a competitive salary and great benefits like fully paid for gym membership, bonus entitlement, private health care, flexible working, cycle repair and fresh fruit delivered to your team every day. We also have GREAT coffee machines, an onsite canteen and pub and an in-studio cinema! Expect regular team events as well as EPIC company-wide parties to celebrate our successes.
Does this sound like you? We'd love to hear from you! Get in touch.

Home to the iconic massive multiplayer online role-playing game RuneScape and its extended family of adventurous titles, we’re a leading games studio that places our players at the heart of everything we do. We’ve welcomed over 260 million players to RuneScape’s world of enthralling fantasy and, together with our team of passionate game creators, our community helps to shape how our games evolve. From casting votes on future game content, to interacting with the studio teams in live streams and in chat, we also join together in person at our celebrated fan convention, RuneFest.
Together with our players, we’re united as one Jagex tribe. Together we’re building deep and engaging multiplayer gaming experiences for players everywhere. We continue to recruit massively into RuneScape and RuneScape Old School as they have more platforms and expansions to conquer, we’re now also undertaking the exciting challenge of building up our company with Unreal Engine 4 experience.
Apply your passion for creating amazing online games and drive the development of technology based on Unreal that will enable an all-star team to help create a deep connected experience. Collaborate with peer discipline leaders and the production team to innovate and focus the development of an exciting new gaming experience.
HOW YOU CAN CONTRIBUTE
- Programming in C++ 11/14
- Working with the rest of the team to produce fun and satisfying games systems and mechanics
- Iterating, bug fixing and seeking to continually improve all aspects of the game
- Rapid prototyping of new ideas
- Researching, innovating and developing new game technology
- Being proactive in finding ways to improve both how we work and how our games operate
WHAT WE NEED
- Proven commercial experience coding in C++
- In depth knowledge of UE4
- Experience with multiplayer functionality
- Knowledge of Software Architecture Fundamentals in object-oriented design and data structures
- A passion for code quality
- Experience with version control software such as SVN or P4
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Excellent creative problem-solving skills where you value the input from producers, product owner and co-workers
- Experience with SCRUM / Agile development
EVEN BETTER IF
- Experience of working on networked and MMO games
- Experience with client-side systems and entity/component-based systems
- Experience working with Unity
- Experience of working on client/server applications
WHAT WE OFFER
If you join us you can expect a competitive salary and great benefits like fully paid for gym membership, bonus entitlement, private health care, flexible working, cycle repair and fresh fruit delivered to your team every day. We also have GREAT coffee machines, an onsite canteen and pub and an in-studio cinema! Expect regular team events as well as EPIC company-wide parties to celebrate our successes. Does this sound like you? We'd love to hear from you! Get in touch.

Our teams are the architects of fantastic realms, the creators of quests, the writers of history, the makers of legends. At our studio headquarters in Cambridge, UK, we’re strengthening these teams that bring life to our existing living games and building out teams to create brand new titles, both within the RuneScape universe and beyond. Now we’re looking for exceptional new talent to join us. If you have a thirst for innovation and ideas that set new standards in player engagement, then read on…
The newly created Brand & Product Marketing team are the owners of the global brand and marketing strategy for the new shared world Action RPG. Includes ownership of clear product positioning, developing the landscape for commercial release, enthusing and exciting players about the new addition to the Jagex games’ portfolio. Setting KPIs – revenue, players, retention, acquisition, market share, etc. – and achieving them.
As Senior Product Marketing Manager you will lead setting and implementing the strategy and vision, have full budget responsibility and shared ownership of the product P&L with the Executive Product Director and Producer. You will work directly with strategy, research, analytics and NPD game teams to achieve the successful launch through to acquisition and retention targets. You will be a senior member of the marketing group.
HOW YOU CAN CONTRIBUTE
- Develop, plan and lead the global marketing strategy.
- Define the game vision, brand identity, product positioning and target player segments in collaboration with Product teams. This to include creation of a big-picture vision and drive that vision across multiple teams to make it a reality.
- Your role covers the entire lifecycle of the game, from global marketing strategy, business case planning, and insight identification to developing, planning, shaping and delivering these.
- Translate product strategy and commercial targets into stretching marketing plans with detailed requirements ensuring brand compliance and consistency.
- Uncover and curate actionable player insights in collaboration with Research and Analytics teams.
- Create lifetime - quarterly, yearly and multi-year - Brand & Product Marketing Plans.
- Working alongside Performance Marketing, Social, Community, CRM, PR and Research to define – and achieve - annual acquisition and requisition targets and budgets required to hit business goals and objectives.
- Stakeholder management, able to work with development teams to define product release requirements.
- Serve as the evangelist for your products, ensuring that the vision and strategy is translated across all communications, materials and promotions.
- Analyse and track performance of Marketing campaigns with clear KPI’s and regularly report back to the business.
WHAT WE NEED
- Significant Brand & Product Marketing experience working on PC, Console or Mobile, including Free To Play GaaS type games that demonstrate large scale commercial success from planning through launch.
- Action RPG genre knowledge so you can measuring potential player levels of engagement and reactions in a pre-release Alpha / Beta player Early Adopter model.
- Significant brand experience including the development of brand strategies, ability to define the ‘X’ of a brand relative to potential players, competitors, etc. and in a way that resonates with a development team.
- Creative mindset with an ability to steer the product vision utilising your extensive knowledge of the market and the competitor landscape.
- Highly organised and able to time-manage, delegate and deliver workloads effectively.
- Strong, relationship and influencing skills.
- Highly analytical, with and excellent understanding of statistics with the ability to interpret with confidence and whilst making and implementing recommendations.
- Budget management in the tens of millions of dollars.
- Passion for videogames preferably in MMO or RPG genre.
WHAT WE OFFER
If you join us you can expect a competitive salary and great benefits like fully paid-for gym membership, bonus entitlement, private health care, flexible working, cycle repair and fresh fruit delivered to your team every day. We also have GREAT coffee machines, an onsite canteen and pub and an in-studio cinema! Expect regular team events as well as EPIC company-wide parties to celebrate our successes.
Does this sound like you? We'd love to hear from you! Get in touch.
Feel like you fit this role, but don’t meet all the requirements? We strive for fresh perspectives, so, as long as you can demonstrate how your attitude and other abilities might make up for any gaps, we would welcome your application!

Jagex Games Studio is looking for a Junior Ops Engineer to join the tribe. Your primary duties will be to support, maintain and advance the Jagex worldwide operational infrastructure, as well as the Jagex in-house development infrastructure, under the direction of the Lead Operations Engineer.
In return you’ll receive a competitive salary, options for a sponsored gym membership, dental plan, private health care, flexible working, cycle repair, free parking and fresh fruit delivered to your team every day.
We also have full-bean style coffee machines that provide hot drinks throughout the day for free. Expect to be invited to team events once a quarter as well as company-wide parties to celebrate our successes.
The successful applicants will be able to enjoy our newly refurbished office which includes contemporary break-out areas, gaming zones, high tech meeting rooms, a huge atrium with tiered seating and our very own private bar.
Main Duties and Responsibilities:
- Installation and upkeep of all physical data centre premises
- Network troubleshooting
- Linux server installation, configuration, and maintenance
- Support of the Jagex Operational Systems (game servers, web servers, backend systems, etc.)
- Support of the Jagex Development Systems (code/asset repositories, build systems, Linux workstations, etc.)
- Database Administration
- BAU Administration (user management, Linux workstation and network support, etc.)
Essential Requirements:
- A good understanding of Linux Operating Systems (with an aspiration to develop into excellence)
- A good understanding of Computer Networks (with an aspiration to develop into excellence)
- A basic understanding of Information Security
- A basic understanding of Database Administration
- A basic understanding of Storage Area Networks
Desired Skills:
- A good understanding of Computer Science, or Software Development Processes
- Excellent Communication and Team-working Skills
- Excellent Customer Service Skills, organized and cool under pressure
Corporate Responsibilities:
- To behave at all times in a professional manner, maintaining a positive and conscientious work ethic whilst also demonstrating initiative and determination to get the job done.
- To work effectively with colleagues both within the immediate team and across the company whenever necessary.
- To demonstrate a willingness to adapt to the evolving environment of the company, teams and work requirements.
Professional Responsibilities:
- To maintain a concise log of all work done, and to aspire to own each piece of work through to completion.
- To only undertake to do work that is within your professional competence.
- To document, formalize and automate work processes, particularly where those processes differ from standard industry practice.
- To aspire at all times to industry best practice, except where deviation is absolutely necessary
- To version control configuration changes, configure appropriate backup schedules for business data assets, and automate monitoring routines so that system failures are immediately and clearly visible.

Our teams are the architects of fantastic realms, the creators of quests, the writers of history, the makers of legends. At our studio headquarters in Cambridge, UK, we’re strengthening these teams that bring life to our existing living games and building out teams to create brand new titles, both within the RuneScape universe and beyond. Now we’re looking for exceptional new talent to join us. If you have a thirst for innovation and ideas that set new standards in player engagement, then read on…
The RuneScape franchise has reached all-time highs, soaring above the previous 2008 peaks. The successful early testing of RuneScape on mobile and launch of Old School RuneScape mobile has boosted subscriber levels to well above the 1 million mark. Sales for the RuneScape franchise have grown in each of the last five years passing a cumulative $1billion of revenues in 2018.
In the last year more than 100 new hires were added to the Jagex team and we are looking for further exceptional new talent to join us. If you have a thirst for marketing innovation and ideas that set new standards in player engagement, then read on…
HOW YOU CAN CONTRIBUTE
As Senior Product Marketing Manager for Runescape you will lead setting and implementing the strategy and vision for RuneScape, have full budget responsibility and shared ownership of the product P&L alongside the Executive Producer. Located at the Jagex head office, working directly with publishing specialists, development studio and game teams to achieve the acquisition and retention targets. You will manage a small product marketing team and be a senior member of the marketing group.
- Your role covers the entire lifecycle of the game, from business case setting, insights and the global marketing strategy to developing, planning, communication and performance marketing for Runescape across desktop and mobile in prepation for FCL.
- Define the franchise vision, brand identity, product positioning and target players in collaboration with Product teams. This to include creation of a big-picture vision and drive that vision across multiple teams to make it a reality.
- Translate product strategy and commercial targets into stretching marketing plans with detailed requirements ensuring brand compliance and consistency
- Drive product launches, notably onto mobile, including working with wider publishing teams, executives, and product management team members
- Uncover and curate actionable player insights in collaboration with Research and Analytics teams.
- Create lifetime - quarterly, yearly and multi-year - Product Marketing Plans.
- Working alongside Performance Marketing, Social, Community, CRM, PR and Research to define – and achieve - annual KPI’s, acquisition and requisition targets and budgets required to hit business goals and objectives
- Stakeholder management, able to work with development teams to define product release requirements
- Serve as the evangelist for your products, ensuring that the vision and strategy is translated across all communications, materials and promotions
WHAT WE NEED
- Significant Product Marketing experience working on Mobile, PC or Console including Free To Play games. Mobile gaming experience a definite plus.
- Previous experience of managing and developing teams consisting of both of direct and indirect reports
- Significant marketing knowledge including the development of brand strategies, ability to define the ‘X’ of a brand relative to potential players, competitors, etc. and in a way that resonates with a development team
- Experience developing complex multi-channel global product marketing plans and expected outcomes/KPI’s including ownership of those principal KPIs
- Budget management in the tens of millions of dollars and international marketing experience
- Excellent project management and communication skills, ability to work across multiple business units and stakeholders
Open Date: 13/05/2019
Close Date: 10/06/2019
Location: Cambridge
Salary: Competitive

Home to the iconic massive multiplayer online role-playing game RuneScape and its extended family of adventurous titles, we’re a leading games studio that places our players at the heart of everything we do.
We’ve welcomed over 250 million players to RuneScape’s world of enthralling fantasy and, together with our team of passionate game creators, our community helps to shape how our games evolve.
From casting votes on future game content, to interacting with the studio teams in live streams and in chat, we also join together in person at our celebrated fan convention, RuneFest.
Together with our players, we’re united as one Jagex tribe. Together we’re building deep and engaging multiplayer gaming experiences for players everywhere.
HOW YOU CAN CONTRIBUTE
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Content Developer to join Jagex’s growing team. RuneScape is an MMORPG with millions of players, and our flagship product. You will work with our world class team to design, write and code fantastic game content, to build the future of our virtual world.
As part of your role, you will:
Design new game content
RuneScape has a huge variety of content. You will be designing quests, mini-games, skills or game-play improvements. You should be confident writing stories and narrative, designing interesting gameplay mechanics and be proficient with technical design.
Produce high quality code
We use an internally developed scripting language, RuneScript. Your script needs to be safe, efficient and maintainable.
Drive a project forward
You’re active in finding solutions and positive when facing challenges. You are able to work to deadline in an Agile software development methodology, and also be happy to lend a helping hand wherever it’s needed.
WHAT WE NEED
- Experience writing quality code in at least one programming or scripting language
- Familiar with practices such as code reviews, maintenance and adhering to coding standards
- Experience designing, building, and populating game worlds with memorable gameplay, characters, colourful dialogue and engaging scenarios
- Excellent communication and game design/documentation skills, breaking games down into their basic mechanics and determine what makes them fun to play.
- Ability to conceptualize and communicate an engaging gameplay experience within a interdiciplinary team and the technical ability to carry out your vision
- Able to work with tight deadlines in a project based environment, organising tasks and estimating time costs.
- You love to play, design and create great games, particularly MMORPGs. You are willing to take on board and act effectively on feedback from the community, giving our players the gameplay experience they love.
EVEN BETTER IF
- You have experience in Agile development and with project management solutions such as JIRA are beneficial.
- You have game scripting experience (Lua, Python, etc.)
- You are experienced with Games as a Service / MMO development
- You have experience over at least one full, cradle-to-grave product cycle
WHAT WE OFFER
If you join us you can expect a competitive salary and great benefits like fully paid for gym membership, bonus entitlement, private health care, flexible working, cycle repair and fresh fruit delivered to your team every day. We also have GREAT coffee machines, an onsite canteen and pub and an in-studio cinema! Expect regular team events as well as EPIC company-wide parties to celebrate our successes.
Does this sound like you? We'd love to hear from you! Get in touch.
Jagex are an equal opportunities employer and positively encourages applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates regardless of sex, race, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, marriage or civil partnership, pregnancy or maternity, religion or belief.

Home to the iconic massive multiplayer online role-playing game RuneScape and its extended family of adventurous titles, we’re a leading games studio that places our players at the heart of everything we do.
We’ve welcomed over 250 million players to RuneScape’s world of enthralling fantasy and, together with our team of passionate game creators, our community helps to shape how our games evolve.
From casting votes on future game content, to interacting with the studio teams in live streams and in chat, we also join together in person at our celebrated fan convention, RuneFest.
Together with our players, we’re united as one Jagex tribe. Together we’re building deep and engaging multiplayer gaming experiences for players everywhere.
HOW YOU CAN CONTRIBUTE
Joining our RuneScape Content team and reporting to the Lead Designer, you are a mid-level designer, primarily responsible for design and implementation of MTX-specific game systems and content with light supervision.
As part of your role, you will:
- Contribute to the high-level design of MTX game systems and MTX content implementation
- Collaborate with Project Leads and Product Managers on defining and fulfilling MTX requirements
- Understand and apply contemporary free-to-play monetisation and analytics best practices
- Display deep knowledge of current MTX trends and competitors
- Understand and deliver on the needs and requirements of the game, team, management and audience
- Understand the limits of available tools and technology and use that knowledge to inform design implementations
- Show excitement and passion for online games and game design, and be an avid player of many games and genres, with ability to understand distinction between personal preferences and audience preferences
- Possess a keen analytical mindset and fact-based approach to challenges
- Productively work within a team and effectively respond to guidance and feedback
- Effectively work and collaborate in cross-disciplinary teams
- Discuss design intentions, player experience and development requirements with cross-disciplinary groups
- Approach design decisions with a scientific, data-backed and logical methodology
- Display experience in designing MTX systems and content for both casual and hardcore audiences
- Display excellent written and verbal communication skills
WHAT WE OFFER
If you join us you can expect a competitive salary and great benefits like fully paid for gym membership, bonus entitlement, private health care, flexible working, cycle repair and fresh fruit delivered to your team every day. We also have GREAT coffee machines, an onsite canteen and pub and an in-studio cinema! Expect regular team events as well as EPIC company-wide parties to celebrate our successes.
Does this sound like you? We'd love to hear from you! Get in touch.
Jagex are an equal opportunities employer and positively encourages applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates regardless of sex, race, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, marriage or civil partnership, pregnancy or maternity, religion or belief.

Home to the iconic massive multiplayer online role-playing game RuneScape and its extended family of adventurous titles, we’re a leading games studio that places our players at the heart of everything we do.
We’ve welcomed over 250 million players to RuneScape’s world of enthralling fantasy and, together with our team of passionate game creators, our community helps to shape how our games evolve.
From casting votes on future game content, to interacting with the studio teams in live streams and in chat, we also join together in person at our celebrated fan convention, RuneFest.
Together with our players, we’re united as one Jagex tribe. Together we’re building deep and engaging multiplayer gaming experiences for players everywhere.
HOW YOU CAN CONTRIBUTE
An exciting opportunity has arisen for Senior Designer to join Jagex’s growing team. RuneScape is an MMORPG with millions of players, and our flagship product. You will work with our world class team to design, write and code fantastic game content, to build the future of our virtual world. You will be a highly proficient design team member, empowered and trusted to make design and implementation decisions in the areas of RuneScape that are within their purview.
As part of your role, you will:
- Contribute to the high-level design of game systems and content
- Understand and apply game design concepts such as game loops, systemic game design, compulsion loops, player psychology and metrics to design decision-making and implementation
- Understand and deliver on the needs and requirements of the game, team, management and audience
- Show excitement and passion for online games and game design, an avid player of games and genres, with the ability to understand distinction between personal preferences and audience preferences
- Possess a keen analytical mindset and fact-based and scientific approach to problem solving
- Be capable of productively working within a team, leading design discussions and effectively responding to and providing guidance and feedback. Accepts criticism well and seeks to integrate team members opinions into designs
- Authoritatively and confidently convey design intentions, player experience and development requirements with cross-disciplinary groups in a collaborative and non-confrontational manner
- Display ability to work with agility in a weekly release structure
- Have a willingness and ability to bring players into the design process
- Have a desire to mentor and coach design-interested developers and testers
- Ideally, display knowledge of RuneScape or a desire to find out more. Knowledge of monetization design, UX and/or combat is favourable
WHAT WE OFFER
If you join us you can expect a competitive salary and great benefits like fully paid for gym membership, bonus entitlement, private health care, flexible working, cycle repair and fresh fruit delivered to your team every day. We also have GREAT coffee machines, an onsite canteen and pub and an in-studio cinema! Expect regular team events as well as EPIC company-wide parties to celebrate our successes.
Does this sound like you? We'd love to hear from you! Get in touch.
Jagex are an equal opportunities employer and positively encourages applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates regardless of sex, race, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, marriage or civil partnership, pregnancy or maternity, religion or belief.

Home to the iconic massive multiplayer online role-playing game RuneScape and its extended family of adventurous titles, we’re a leading games studio that places our players at the heart of everything we do.
We’ve welcomed over 250 million players to RuneScape’s world of enthralling fantasy and, together with our team of passionate game creators, our community helps to shape how our games evolve.
From casting votes on future game content, to interacting with the studio teams in live streams and in chat, we also join in person at our celebrated fan convention, RuneFest.
Together with our players, we’re a united Jagex tribe. Together we’re building deep and engaging multiplayer gaming experiences for players everywhere.
HOW YOU CAN CONTRIBUTE
This is a fantastic opportunity for an animator looking for a varied and challenging role that encourages creative input, team work and personal development. The successful applicant will join an experienced team of artists; working on our flagship title RuneScape.
Working within our talented art team, you will:
- Create, develop and refine high quality 3D animations across creatures, human characters, locations and FX.
- Work with Maya and our in-house animation tools to produce animation assets.
- Work closely with Concept Artists and 3D Modellers to ensure models are designed and optimized for animation. Considering multiple RuneScape on pc and mobile as an animation design requirement.
- Work closely with Content Developers to ensure animations are correctly implemented in the game engine.
- Work with Tools Developers to troubleshoot and improve existing in-house tools.
- Provide feedback to all animators in the team in group reviews and more junior members of the team in day to day production.
- Ensure the animation style is maintained through all projects within your own and colleagues work via feedback.
WHAT WE NEED
- Excellent key frame animation skills across creatures, set pieces and human characters.
- Good experience in Maya animation production specifically.
- Good experience rigging and weighting characters in Maya
- An excellent demo reel that adequately reflects this experience.
- A keen interest in games, game animation and animation in general.
- The ability to give and take critique, helping yourself and the team to develop.
- To take direction and work with the Lead Animator and Art director to maintain game style and quality.
- To be proactive and take responsibility for keeping assets optimised, organised and functioning in-game as required.
- To maintain a good level of communication with all relevant team members throughout animation production and implementation.
EVEN BETTER IF
- Degree in Animation.
- Traditional animation skills.
- Experience in FX animation production.
- Experience in current game engine animation pipelines. UE4. Unity etc.
- Traditional 2D art skills.
- Experience animating for cinematics, including facial performances.
- Experience using mocap.
We can only consider applicants who include evidence of their work, along with breakdowns in an online format such as personal website, blog, Github, or online album.
In show reels, we expect to see:
- Strong understanding of the principles of animation.
- Examples of Human animation.
- Examples of creature animation, including biped, quadrupeds and other anatomy types.
- Your best work, not all your work.
WHAT WE OFFER
If you join us you can expect a competitive salary and great benefits like fully paid-for gym membership, bonus entitlement, private health care, flexible working, cycle repair, and fresh fruit delivered to your team every day. We also have GREAT coffee machines, an onsite canteen, pub, and an in-studio cinema! Expect regular team events as well as EPIC company-wide parties to celebrate our successes.
Does this sound like you? We'd love to hear from you! Get in touch.
Jagex are an equal opportunities employer and positively encourages applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates regardless of sex, race, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, marriage or civil partnership, pregnancy or maternity, religion or belief

Home to the iconic massive multiplayer online role-playing game RuneScape and its extended family of adventurous titles, we’re a leading games studio that places our players at the heart of everything we do.
We’ve welcomed over 250 million players to RuneScape’s world of enthralling fantasy and, together with our team of passionate game creators, our community helps to shape how our games evolve.
From casting votes on future game content, to interacting with the studio teams in live streams and in chat, we also join in person at our celebrated fan convention, RuneFest.
Together with our players, we’re a united Jagex tribe, building deep and engaging multiplayer gaming experiences for players everywhere.
HOW YOU CAN CONTRIBUTE
This is a fantastic opportunity for a Senior Technical Animator looking for a varied and challenging role that encourages creative input and technical direction.
The successful applicant will join an experienced team of technical artists working on our flagship title, RuneScape.
RuneScape is an evolving product on PC and new Mobile platforms with players that have an insatiable thirst for content, meaning there’s always a need to evolve and modernise our pipeline and tools to keep up with their demand. Your role would involve collaborating with our artists & animators to develop, maintain and improve those tools.
Working within our talented art team, you will:
- Design and implement complex skeletons, control rigs, secondary animation (fat, jiggle, smears), and skin deformations, including facial rigging solutions for creatures and humans.
- Implement techniques and process to solve character and animation and deformation challenges.
- Recognise inefficiencies and problems in existing pipelines and identify solutions.
- Design, develop, deploy, and maintain animation tools, workflows and pipelines to improve animation quality and production efficiency.
- Work with engine and tools teams to contribute to development of new game technology.
- Document tools and processes required to educate artists on new tools or workflows.
- Help mentor and develop more junior members of the team across the studio.
Check out some of our latest artwork on ArtStation: https://www.artstation.com/jagex/albums/739317
WHAT WE LOOK FOR
- Excellent communication skills with an innate ability to liaise across art and tech disciplines.
- Good eye for animation is a must, with a thorough understanding of animation principles, weighting, and skinning.
- Good knowledge of anatomy and a thorough understanding of biomechanics, kinesiology for humanoid and animals and figure and facial anatomy
- Strong background in rigging and skinning complex characters/objects in a realistic or exaggerated manner.
- Expert working knowledge of Motion Builder/Motive or equivalent software.
- In-depth knowledge of Maya, and experience with Python, Qt Frameworks (PySide, PyQt), and familiarity with the Maya API (MotionBuilder API experience a plus).
- Working evidence of previous AAA development cycles, their pipelines and workflows, completed whilst in a technical animation role.
- A strong demo reel that adequately reflects this experience.
EVEN BETTER IF
- Knowledge of other languages which are helpful to broader tools beyond Maya, such as JavaScript, PHP, SQL, C# or C++ and so on.
- In-depth knowledge of a broad range of game technologies such as rendering, game systems and data management
- Experience with cloth, muscles and dynamics.
- Experience solving, cleaning and implementing motion capture data within a game engine.
- Degree in visual effects or technical subject area is highly preferred.
- Traditional 2D art skills
PLEASE NOTE
We can only consider applicants who include evidence of their work, along with breakdowns in an online format such as personal website, blog, Github, or online portfolio album

Lead Artist - Old School RuneScape
An exciting and rare opportunity to work on one of the largest MMO RPG franchises in the industry has risen. Boasting millions of players across PC and mobile this game continues to grow in popularity and requires a lead artist to maximise its potential.
A Lead Artist is a highly skilled individual who can guide smaller, focussed teams to create and deliver artwork to a high standard. They are an invaluable project support and possess a deep understanding of game art pipelines and processes. A lead will be a skilled team member with the ability and desire to manage direct reports and effectively time manage themselves and others in their sub team to deliver key results.
Leads will be expected to perform the duties of their specialism; however, it is also expected that this will diminish to a degree in order to accommodate more lead-specific duties as outlined below.
Directly Reporting to: EP
Key Responsibilities:
In addition to the duties performed by a senior artist, the lead must be able to perform the following duties;
- Hands on art production contribution
- Strong leadership skills with a lead by example approach
- Delivery of all artwork at the expected studio quality
- Reviewing of assets to maintain consistent quality level and artist feedback
- Plan, schedule and structure discipline tasks with the production team
- Document and communicate technical specifications and visual guides to support game vision
- Inspire, motivate, lead and mentor more junior team members
- Support, promote and build good morale in an open, creative environment
- Produce hiring plans with production team
- Collaborate with Tech Art and Code to ensure pipelines are effective and optimal
- Manage outsource partners or freelancers as required
What you need to show us:
- Enthusiasm for stylised and retro graphics
- Highly proficient in 2D and 3D software (Maya/ Photoshop)
- Solid 3D generalist portfolio
- Comfortable working across art disciplines
- Experience running individual and group reviews and feedback sessions
- Able to time manage, prioritise and track both themselves and direct reports
- Ability to communicate clearly, and concisely to team, peers and management
- Willingness to transition between asset production and line management
- Mentoring experience from junior to senior level
- Professional attitude and work ethic
- Solid soft skills and teamworking
- Have an artistic background showing a solid understanding of art fundamentals; anatomy, composition, lighting/ value, form/ function and perspective
BONUS; Outsource experience

HOW YOU CAN CONTRIBUTE
Jagex Games Studio is looking for a talented Technical QA Engineer to join our team in Cambridge, UK on our award-winning games development teams.
You will benefit from reporting to Director of Quality Assurance and work in a highly talented team with QA veterans of over 10 years and be part of a growing business which has rewarding opportunities. The role offers an excellent learning environment with opportunity to work on multiple games which is complimented with a competitive salary.
As a Technical QA Engineer, you would be responsible for ensuring the high production quality of our game systems and ensuring these are robust and consistently checked. You will be involved in high-profile and challenging projects, helping ensure that we successfully deliver enhancements to our game engine technology.
HOW YOU CAN CONTRIBUTE
- Developing and executing test scripts
- Performing pre-release validations of the game engine individually or part of a team
- Performing Tech QA services such as Performance and Compat Testing
- Documenting your planned test coverage through detailed test plans
- Perform front line testing for new game engine features
- Report, escalate and track issues found during testing to ensure that they are resolved
- Reproduce player reported issues and gather info useful to engine developers to aid fixing
- Helping roll out a world-class test automation framework to enhance the test capabilities by suggesting features and ultising existing scripts
- Provide reporting of test effort, results, and risks, from both manual and automated tests
- Keep up with current Tech trends within the industry
WHAT WE NEED
- Excellent analytical, interpersonal and communication skills
- Experience in formal software testing or video games testing
- A good grasp of terminology used in an engine dev environment (such as packing, deploying, refactoring)
- Ability to work from very technically worded tasks (eg allow setcustommodel on a slot independent of config definitions) and then translate to customer facing patch notes
- Ability to code debug test scripts to push new features/commands past their limits
- An honest, confident and vocal individual that speaks up and suggests improvements be it via processes or new tools
- An individual that meets deadlines and delivers projects on time to an excellent standard
- Ability to demonstrate an understanding of testing methodologies and AGILE development
- Ability to effectively perform destructive and exploratory testing without test case guidance with an eye for detail
- Gather and interpret crash logs from multiple platforms like Windows, Mac OSx or mobile
- Use various tools to capture video/images off of various devices /platforms of issues eg Vysor
- Understands the difference between a Server, Client and Module
EVEN BETTER IF
- You have experience with JIRA and Perforce
- You have previous experience on MMO’s
- You have experience in using one or more of the following:
- JUnit
- Python
- Java
- C++
- You have a computing or games related degree
- You have direct game experience on our LIVE products
WHAT WE OFFER
If you join us you can expect a competitive salary and great benefits like fully paid for gym membership, bonus entitlement, private health care, flexible working, cycle repair and fresh fruit delivered to your team every day. We also have GREAT coffee machines, an onsite canteen and pub and an in-studio cinema! Expect regular team events as well as EPIC company-wide parties to celebrate our successes.
Does this sound like you? We'd love to hear from you! Get in touch.
Jagex are an equal opportunities employer and positively encourages applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates regardless of sex, race, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, marriage or civil partnership, pregnancy or maternity, religion or belief.

Jagex Ltd, the UK’s leading independent online games studio, is looking for an exceptional and passionate programmer to join our RuneScape Technologies team.
Joining the RuneScape Technologies team, you would be working with our code libraries, scripting languages and game engine technologies. You will have key responsibilities for the server technologies powering RuneScape, with the ability to affect its future development.
We are looking for people who have excelled in the field of computer programming to join our fast-paced team, with successful candidates being proficient in all aspects of programming and looking to take on technical challenges. We’re keen to develop people’s passions and as a studio of over 300 people we offer lots of chances to progress your career and advance within the studio.
Jagex is most well known for the record breaking game Runescape but we have many other exciting projects ongoing including bringing Runescape to mobile, developing a brand new MMO amongst other top secret and exciting things.
This is an exciting opportunity for a candidate with ambition and initiative to join a fast-paced online games company and face some exciting challenges based around online gaming. We are open to candidates from a games background or a related industry.
Key Duties Include:
- Programming using Java to service assigned and scheduled requests for new enhanced technology in a flexible and fast-paced environment
- Developing client server architecture, having key ownership of the server technology powering RuneScape
- Researching, innovating and developing new game engine technology
- Working to keep our industry-leading technology ahead of the competition
- Being constantly proactive in finding ways to make our game technology faster, slimmer and more effective
Essential Requirements:
- Extremely proficient with Java
- Server / Backend experience and solving complex problems
- Experience working in a high-load environment
- A passion for innovating solutions and solving problems in a unique technology stack
- Relevant qualification at degree level or equivalent experience
Desirable Qualities:
- Game industry experience or a related consumer facing environment
- Knowledge of other platforms including, but not limited to, Mac OS, Linux, iOS and Android
- Experience with scripting languages such as Python, Bash, Perl or similar
- Experience playing Runescape

Jagex Ltd, the UK’s leading independent online games studio, is looking for an exceptional and passionate programmer to join our RuneScape Technologies team.
The successful candidate will be working with our java code libraries, scripting languages and game engine technologies. You will have key responsibilities for the server technologies powering RuneScape and Old School Runescape, with the ability to affect their future development.
Candidates must have a deep and comprehensive understanding of programming, and ideally past experience working on bespoke client/server game engines. A particular focus on Java is necessary, although abilities and awareness of other languages and technologies (including C++) would be a significant positive.
This is an opportunity for a candidate with ambition and initiative to join a fast-paced online games company, at a studio of over 300 people, and face some exciting challenges that you just won't find anywhere else.
Key Duties Include:
- Programming using Java to service assigned and scheduled requests for new enhanced technology in a flexible and fast-paced environment
- Developing client server architecture, having key ownership of the server technology powering RuneScape
- Researching, innovating and developing new game engine technology
- Working to keep our industry-leading technology ahead of the competition
- Being constantly proactive in finding ways to make our game technology faster, slimmer and more effective
Essential Requirements:
- Extremely proficient with Java
- Server / Backend experience and solving complex problems
- Experience working in a high-load environment
- A passion for innovating solutions and solving problems in a unique technology stack
- Relevant qualification at degree level or equivalent experience
Desirable Qualities:
- Game industry experience or a related consumer facing environment
- Knowledge of other platforms including, but not limited to, Mac OS, Linux, iOS and Android
- Familiarity with build and deployment systems such as Maven and Ansible, and web frameworks such as Spring
- Experience with scripting languages such as Python, Bash, Perl or similar
- An understanding and appreciation of test-driven development and experience writing unit-tests
- A passion for gaming and Runescape
WHAT WE OFFER
If you join us you can expect a competitive salary and great benefits like fully paid for gym membership, bonus entitlement, private health care, flexible working, cycle repair and fresh fruit delivered to your team every day. We also have great coffee machines, an onsite canteen and pub and an open, friendly environment. Expect regular team events as well as EPIC company-wide parties to celebrate our successes.
Does this sound like you? We'd love to hear from you! Get in touch.

We are looking for people who have excelled in the field of computer programming to lead our internal tools team, with successful candidates being proficient in all aspects of programming and looking to take on technical challenges. We’re keen to develop people’s passions and, as a studio of over 300 people, we offer lots of chances to progress your career and advance within the organisation.
HOW YOU CAN CONTRIBUTE
The Lead Tools Programmer is an experienced Software Engineer responsible for the delivery of desktop and pipeline tools used for game production on the world leading MMORPG’s RuneScape and Old School RuneScape. Tooling covers a broad range of disciplines including Modelling, Animation, Map Editing, Audio, Interface and Scripting –The successful candidate will need to foster a deep understanding of existing technologies while continually driving to enhance and change them. You will be influential within the organisation and be directly rewarded for the successes of the products.
- Establish goals and milestones for team members and provide mentorship to enable them to develop and excel.
- Gathering requirements from internal customers - artists, graphic designers, audio engineers and content developers.
- Work closely with the Technical Director to plan and execute the Tools Development Roadmap.
- Become the vision holder for the long-term progression of the internal tools.
- Design, implementation and test of core Development Tool features.
- Troubleshooting and resolving daily tools development issues.
- Adhere to and maintain, high software development standards.
WHAT WE NEED
- Proficiency with one or more of the following Languages: Java, C#, C/C++.
- Experience leading a project or mentoring a team
- Demonstrated industry experience in a tools development environment.
- Knowledge of modern game development techniques.
- Experience with rendering APIs such as OpenGL, Direct-X.
- Actively involved in defining and regulating software development practices.
- Excellent people-skills, with clear verbal and written communication
WHAT WE OFFER
If you join us you can expect a competitive salary and great benefits like fully paid for gym membership, bonus entitlement, private health care, flexible working, cycle repair and fresh fruit delivered to your team every day. We also have great coffee machines, an onsite canteen, gaming areas and an open, friendly environment - with plenty of groups and clubs for every interest. Expect regular team events as well as epic company-wide parties to celebrate our successes.
Does this sound like you? We'd love to hear from you! Get in touch.

We are looking for that special person who thrives on helping to deliver the best possible product through the development and refinement of build, test and release technologies.
As a key part of the game client team, the candidate will have direct involvement in the continuing development of the Runescape games, supporting the rest of the development group by delivering features to optimise and improve the reliability of the release processes. The role will cover a broad range of areas and technologies ; build systems and test automation frameworks, desktop and mobile devices, C++, Java and other scripting languages as needed, and the ideal candidate will help define the scope of the role, driving the direction of the release frameworks to optimise our workflow.
This is an opportunity for a candidate with ambition and initiative to join a fast-paced online games company, at a studio of over 300 people, and face some exciting challenges that you just won't get in many other places.
Key Duties include:
- Development and improvement to build, test and release automation technologies
- Programming in C++ 11/14 and other languages as required
- Improving the tech behind the record-breaking MMO RuneScape
- Enhancing and maintaining our existing game engine technology
- Being proactive in finding ways to improve both how we work and how our games operate
Essential Requirements:
- A passion for innovating solutions and solving problems in a unique technology stack
- Experience working with build and test automation frameworks (e.g. Maven), particularly those relating to the production of C/C++ projects
- An understanding and appreciation of test processes and QA requirements
- Ability to work semi-independently, pro-actively identifying and addressing issues
- Previous time spent working in a large complex system
- Experience with scripting languages such as Python, Bash, Perl or similar
- Proficiency in C++ and Java
- Relevant qualification at degree level or equivalent experience
Desirable Qualities:
- Experience of working on networked and MMO games
- Experience of developing games for mobile, both iOS and Android
- Good written and verbal communication skills
- Games industry experience
- Experience playing RuneScape
WHAT WE OFFER
If you join us you can expect a competitive salary and great benefits like fully paid for gym membership, bonus entitlement, private health care, flexible working, cycle repair and fresh fruit delivered to your team every day. We also have great coffee machines, an onsite canteen and pub and an open, friendly environment. Expect regular team events as well as EPIC company-wide parties to celebrate our successes.
Does this sound like you? We'd love to hear from you! Get in touch.

We are looking for people who have excelled in the field of computer programming to join our fast-paced team, with successful candidates being proficient in all aspects of programming and looking to take on technical challenges. We’re keen to develop people’s passions and, as a studio of over 300 people, we offer lots of chances to progress your career and advance within the studio.
Jagex is most well-known for the record-breaking game Runescape but we have many other exciting projects ongoing including bringing Runescape to mobile, developing a brand new MMO amongst other top secret and exciting things.
This is an exciting opportunity for a candidate with ambition and initiative to join a fast-paced online games company and face some exciting challenges based around online gaming. We are open to candidates from a games background or a related industry.
HOW YOU CAN CONTRIBUTE
- Programming in C++ 11/14
- Improving the tech behind the record-breaking MMO RuneScape
- Enhancing and maintaining our existing game engine technology
- Researching, innovating and developing new game engine technology
- Being proactive in finding ways to improve both how we work and how our games operate
WHAT WE NEED
- Extremely proficient at C++
- Ability to work well in a team and with others, good communication skills are essential!
- Worked on at least several games industry titles, at least one launched title and/or one AAA title
- A passion for innovating solutions and solving problems in a unique technology stack
- Experience with various non-graphical game engine systems
- Designed and fully implemented at least one major system in a commercial game engine
- Relevant qualification at degree level or equivalent experience
EVEN BETTER IF
- Experience of working on networked and MMO games
- Experience with client-side animation systems and entity/component based systems
- Experience of developing games for mobile, both iOS and Android
- Experience with scripting languages such as Python, cmake/make and bash
- Experience with Java
- Experience of working on client/server applications
WHAT WE OFFER
If you join us you can expect a competitive salary and great benefits like fully paid for gym membership, bonus entitlement, private health care, flexible working, cycle repair and fresh fruit delivered to your team every day. We also have GREAT coffee machines, an onsite canteen and pub and an in-studio cinema! Expect regular team events as well as EPIC company-wide parties to celebrate our successes.
Does this sound like you? We'd love to hear from you! Get in touch.

Jagex Ltd, the UK’s leading independent online games studio, is looking for an experienced senior game developer to join our RuneScape Technologies team.
The successful candidate will be working with our java code libraries, scripting languages and game engine technologies. You will have key responsibilities for the server and client technologies powering RuneScape and Old School RuneScape, taking ownership of significant portions of the platform and defining their future development. You will need to foster a deep understanding of existing technologies while continually driving to enhance and change them. You will be influential within the organisation and be directly rewarded for the successes of the products.
Candidates must have a deep and comprehensive understanding of all aspects of programming, particularly with Java and C++ (including C++ 11/14). The candidate must have past experience working on bespoke client/server game engines and proven experience working at a senior level within the games industry. With both games proving great successes on mobile, familiarity with cross-platform development is essential.
This is an opportunity for a candidate with ambition and initiative to join a well-established online games company, at a studio of over 300 people, and face some exciting challenges that you just won't find anywhere else.
HOW YOU CAN CONTRIBUTE
- Programming using Java and C++, defining those programming tasks, as well as working to service assigned and scheduled requests
- Defining and developing client server architecture, taking ownership of significant areas of the client and server technology powering RuneScape and Oldschool Runescape
- Researching, innovating and developing new game engine technology
- Being constantly proactive in finding ways to make our game technology faster, leaner and more effective
- Mentoring other team members, settings high standards and acting as an exemplary developer.
- Assisting in the recruitment of other team members.
- Leading technical discussions with team members to ensure that the correct solutions are chosen to problems
- Contributing to overall project strategy. Be willing to put forward ideas, and to positively critique those put forward by others
- Build strong working relationships with team members and with other teams within the organisation
WHAT WE NEED
- Extremely proficient with Java and C++
- At least 2yrs games industry experience at a senior level
- Server / Backend experience and solving complex problems
- Experience working in a high-load environment
- A passion for innovating solutions and solving problems in a unique technology stack
- Knowledge and appreciation of modern development practices
- Relevant qualification at degree level or equivalent experience
EVEN BETTER IF
- Knowledge of other platforms including, but not limited to, Mac OS, Linux, iOS and Android
- Experience with scripting languages such as Python, Bash, Perl or similar
- Experience with build and deployment systems such as Maven and Ansible
- Familiarity with web frameworks such as Spring
- An understanding and appreciation of test-driven development
- A passion for gaming and Runescape
WHAT WE OFFER
If you join us you can expect a competitive salary and great benefits like fully paid for gym membership, bonus entitlement, private health care, flexible working, cycle repair and fresh fruit delivered to your team every day. We also have great coffee machines, an onsite canteen and pub and an open, friendly environment. Expect regular team events as well as EPIC company-wide parties to celebrate our successes.
Does this sound like you? We'd love to hear from you! Get in touch.

We are looking for people who have excelled in the field of computer programming to join our fast-paced team, with successful candidates being proficient in all aspects of programming and looking to take on technical challenges. We’re keen to develop people’s passions and, as a studio of over 300 people, we offer lots of chances to progress your career and advance within the studio.
Jagex is most well-known for the record-breaking game Runescape but we have many other exciting projects ongoing including bringing Runescape to mobile, developing a brand new MMO amongst other top secret and exciting things.
This is an exciting opportunity for a candidate with ambition and initiative to join a fast-paced online games company and face some exciting challenges based around online gaming. We are open to candidates from a games background or a related industry.
Key Duties include:
- Programming in C++ 11/14
- Improving the tech behind the record-breaking MMO RuneScape
- Preparing the game for its global launch on mobile
- Working on the constant visual overhaul of the game
- Enhancing and maintaining our existing game engine technology
- Researching, innovating and developing new game engine technology
- Being proactive in finding ways to improve both how we work and how our games operate
Essential Requirements:
- Extremely proficient at C++
- Experience with either OpenGL (preferred) or DirectX
- A passion for innovating solutions and solving problems in a unique technology stack
- Previous time spent working in a large complex system
- Experience of working on client/server applications
- Demonstrated experience with one or more key game development disciplines such as rendering, tools, gameplay, AI or networking
- Relevant qualification at degree level or equivalent experience
- Game industry experience
Desirable Qualities:
- Experience of working on networked and MMO games
- Experience with client-side animation systems
- Experience with real time, volumetric lighting and dynamic lighting, shadowing and physical-based shading
- Experience of developing games for mobile, both iOS and Android
- Experience with scripting languages such as Python, Bash, Perl or similar
- Experience playing RuneScape
WHAT WE OFFER
If you join us you can expect a competitive salary and great benefits like fully paid for gym membership, bonus entitlement, private health care, flexible working, cycle repair and fresh fruit delivered to your team every day. We also have GREAT coffee machines, an onsite canteen and pub and an in-studio cinema! Expect regular team events as well as EPIC company-wide parties to celebrate our successes.
Does this sound like you? We'd love to hear from you! Get in touch.

We are looking for people who have excelled in the field of computer programming to join our fast-paced team, with successful candidates being proficient in all aspects of programming and looking to take on technical challenges. We’re keen to develop people’s passions and, as a studio of over 300 people, we offer lots of chances to progress your career and advance within the studio.
Jagex is most well-known for the record-breaking game Runescape but we have many other exciting projects ongoing including bringing Runescape to mobile, developing a brand new MMO amongst other top secret and exciting things.
This is an exciting opportunity for a candidate with ambition and initiative to join a fast-paced online games company and face some exciting challenges based around online gaming. We are open to candidates from a games background or a related industry.
HOW YOU CAN CONTRIBUTE
The Senior Tools Programmer is an experienced Software Engineer responsible for the delivery of desktop and pipeline tools used for mainstream game production on the world leading MMORPG’s RuneScape and Old School RuneScape. Tooling covers a broad range of disciplines including Modelling, Animation, Map Editing, Audio, Interface and Scripting.
- Design, implementation and test of core Development Tool features.
- Troubleshooting and resolving daily tools development issues.
- Requirements gathering from content developers
- Plan and execute the Tools Development Roadmap.
- Adhere to and maintain, high software development standards.
WHAT WE NEED
- Proficient with one or more of the following Languages: Java, C#, C/C++.
- Games industry experience, ideally in a tools development environment.
- Knowledge of modern game development techniques.
- Experience with rendering APIs such as OpenGL, Direct-X.
- Demonstrated industry experience in a tools development environment.
- Takes ownership of key tools or software development discipline.
- Actively involved in defining and regulating software development practices.
WHAT WE OFFER
If you join us you can expect a competitive salary and great benefits like fully paid for gym membership, bonus entitlement, private health care, flexible working, cycle repair and fresh fruit delivered to your team every day. We also have GREAT coffee machines, an onsite canteen and pub and an in-studio cinema! Expect regular team events as well as EPIC company-wide parties to celebrate our successes.
Does this sound like you? We'd love to hear from you! Get in touch.

Home to the iconic massive multiplayer online role-playing game RuneScape and its extended family of adventurous titles, we’re a leading games studio that places our players at the heart of everything we do. We’ve welcomed over 250 million players to RuneScape’s world of enthralling fantasy and, together with our team of passionate game creators, our community helps to shape how our games evolve. From casting votes on future game content, to interacting with the studio teams in live streams and in chat, we also join together in person at our celebrated fan convention, RuneFest. Together with our players, we’re united as one Jagex tribe. Together we’re building deep and engaging multiplayer gaming experiences for players everywhere.
HOW YOU CAN CONTRIBUTE
The Executive Producer at Jagex embodies our values and demonstrates them to their teams. They balance an obsession with our players with our company needs by being creative in their approach but rigorously scientific in confirming any hypothesis, but above all else they guide and support their teams through change by demonstrating courage in the vision for where the game is going.
This role is responsible for the growth, P&L, and roadmap for one of our most successful and critically acclaimed titles, RuneScape. The role maintains oversight of all department leads involved in the project and is responsible for ensuring the identification and communication of the product's vision, goals, progress, quality, and risks. The EP will be vital in aligning creative direction, business demands, and production process across their team to ensure we continue to deliver the best possible experience for our player base.
This critical role will provide a challenge that comes with overseeing a hugely successful and profitable title.
You will work in an innovative and fast paced environment, directly receiving and obsessing over feedback from players, coupling that with the breadth of experience in the team to make key, bold and creative development decisions and always understanding the heartbeat of the game to confirm those decisions are working. Guiding and directing a title which leads, and epitomises the definition of a community driven game for the world’s most player obsessed gaming company, you will be tasked with ensuring that player needs, team creativity, player behaviour data, and the needs of our business are all weighed and balanced in order to drive our roadmap and growth.
We would like to find someone that can lead a team to deliver quality content at a rapid pace, ensuring we meet our weekly release schedule, the backbone of RuneScape’s success, while maintaining the highest level of quality for all deliverables. You are commercially astute, agile, proactive and great at driving projects. You can understand the needs of the environment and adapt your wealth of knowledge to meet those demands.
The Executive Producer will bring unrivalled expertise to the RuneScape leadership group and help us extend the game's success to new heights. You will implement and drive best practices, operational excellence, innovation, and quality and lead your team through the change with courage.
RESPONSIBILITIES
- Lead and motivate the RuneScape team, keeping a continuous focus on achieving goals and objectives.
- Lead and manage a team of leads and producers to ensure the continued operation of live titles.
- Responsible for managing the product teams and development process to deliver content updates against the plans and schedules.
- Utilize experience to push and advance how the teams operate to help create a modern development environment.
- Maintain a high level of quality and user experience by working closely with all teams and leads.
- Articulate goals and strategy to the team, ensuring development efforts are aligned.
- Foster a culture of innovation, to encourage new and compelling content.
- Oversee the review, comments and approval of milestone submissions.
- Develop strong relationships to establish and maintain a reliable and timely flow of information and materials to all parties as necessary.
- Represent Production concerns for assigned projects during plan development and ongoing green-light meetings.
- Identify and communicate roadblocks and bottlenecks that may prevent the team from achieving their goals.
- Provide and drive an inspiring product vision while upholding a high expected level of quality for all deliverables.
ESSENTIAL REQUIREMENTS
- Significant professional experience as a Senior Producer, Game Lead, Product Lead, or Senior Product Manager in the gaming industry.
- Experience in PC client game production and management across multiple titles and business models.
- Experience in Live Operations on a successful product.
- Experience orchestrating work across programming, art, and design disciplines
- Experience with modern development methodologies (e.g. Agile) and milestone/greenlight methodologies for development project management.
- Excellent knowledge of online Free-to-Play games.
- Ability to work independently and as part of a team.
- Passion for games and desire to create fun and engaging online experiences.
- Strong oral and written communication skills.
- Strong mathematical, statistics, and analytical skills.
- Bachelor’s degree in an business management, engineering, or computer science, or equivalent experience.
- Excellent communicator in speech and writing.
- Experience working in a collaborative environment.
- Ability to keep cool when under a great deal of pressure.
WHAT WE OFFER
If you join us you can expect a competitive salary and great benefits like fully paid for gym membership, bonus entitlement, private health care, flexible working, cycle repair and fresh fruit delivered to your team every day. We also have GREAT coffee machines, an onsite canteen and pub and an in-studio cinema! Expect regular team events as well as EPIC company-wide parties to celebrate our successes.
Does this sound like you? We'd love to hear from you! Get in touch.
Feel like you fit this role, but don’t meet all the requirements? We strive for fresh perspectives, so as long as you can demonstrate how your attitude and other abilities might make up for any gaps we would welcome your application!

Home to the iconic massive multiplayer online role-playing game RuneScape and its extended family of adventurous titles, we’re a leading games studio that places our players at the heart of everything we do. We’ve welcomed over 260 million players to RuneScape’s world of enthralling fantasy and, together with our team of passionate game creators, our community helps to shape how our games evolve. From casting votes on future game content, to interacting with the studio teams in live streams and in chat, we also join together in person at our celebrated fan convention, RuneFest.
Together with our players, we’re united as one Jagex tribe. Together we’re building deep and engaging multiplayer gaming experiences for players everywhere. As Producer (GaaS) you will act as the production owner for content delivery, managing the day to day work, backlog process and schedule of up to three small scale scrum teams.
HOW YOU CAN CONTRIBUTE
- Be able to lead, inspire and motivate the teams working on the game, and maintain enthusiasm for the project
- Be able to dive into, understand and embody the game’s user experience
- Set goals and success criteria for your teams, managing the game’s performance
- Experience managing agile game deliver in a Games as a Service environment, ideally as a Product Owner or Scrum Master
- Review and guide your team’s delivery process from design to implementation creating features that drive engagement
- Work collaboratively with the development teams and remove obstacles to ensure an efficient development process
- Provide clear, concise status reports, verbally or written at all times, demonstrating an awareness of the team priorities, current tasks, risks and conflicts
- Be able to multitask and prioritize, managing people, time and resources
- Create good working relationships, managing cross team communication of development to all areas of the business
- Have excellent communication and presentation skills, acting as the production representative of your team.
- Have good organizational and problem-solving attitude, managing the scoping and delivery process
- Have good negotiation, conflict resolution and decision-making skills
- Have good knowledge of games and the games industry
WHAT WE NEED
- Proven production experience in Agile Game Deliver working on Games as a Service products
- Released titles on PC, Console or Mobile
- Experience with any of the following - Jira, Hansoft, Trello or similar package
- A strong Communicator
- Economic and/or Project Management degrees or live service environment expertise are a huge plus!
- Basic understanding of metrics, with a “data driven” attitude and fast decision making
- Good understanding of User Experience in live games and mechanics that drive engagement
- Ability to work independently and as part of a team
- Ideally one of either: good analytical skills, very creative mindset, large scale scrum expertise
WHAT WE OFFER
If you join us you can expect a competitive salary and great benefits like fully paid for gym membership, bonus entitlement, private health care, flexible working, cycle repair and fresh fruit delivered to your team every day. We also have GREAT coffee machines, an onsite canteen and pub and an in-studio cinema! Expect regular team events as well as EPIC company-wide parties to celebrate our successes. Does this sound like you? We'd love to hear from you! Get in touch

Jagex Ltd, the UK's largest developer and publisher of online games, is looking for a talented Product Manager to play a key role on Jagex’s flagship MMORPG, RuneScape. Reporting to the Executive Producer, the successful candidate will be directly contributing to commercial success by maximising player value, in order to promote product longevity and game health.
Working closely with the internal monetisation development team you will be directly responsible for the generation of revenue through microtransactions and the content roadmap for new monetisation features. Acting as an agile Product Owner you will take responsibility for the team’s output and ensuring KPI targets and release commitments are met. You will also work closely with our Business Intelligence teams to provide analysis and insights, and with marketing and CRM teams to drive revenue growth through targeted offers promotions.
This is an amazing opportunity to be at the heart of a vibrant team working on a well-established, widely loved game, and requires an experienced, self-motivated individual with a passion for online games.
HOW YOU CAN CONTRIBUTE
- Provide team leadership and guidance advocating a fair and responsible approach to monetisation that respecting the needs and viewpoint of the game’s community at all timesSet goals and success criteria for the team’s output, monitoring and communicating progress toward monthly revenue targets and annual KPI goals
- Inspire the team to drive innovation and design ideas to maintain fresh content for monetisation promotions and other new services
- Maintain a thorough understanding of game monetisation trends, techniques and best practices using this knowledge to steer product development
- Actively seek out new opportunities to drive monetisation whilst maintaining alignment with business objectives and long-term plans
- Work with product development teams to ensure monetisation features are implemented on new platforms to provide the optimal user experience and compliancy with platform providers
- Provide clear specifications, business cases, and supporting data analysis for new features and incremental improvements, understanding how product changes might impact key metrics and the game’s community
- Work with stakeholders and development teams including product marketing, technical services, billing and payment platforms and ensure a frictionless, well-informed process
- Conduct group retrospectives and provide timely, accurate and insightful reporting
- Actively contribute to the long-term vision for RuneScape and champion Jagex’s values and mission through its product strategy
WHAT WE NEED
- Professional experience as a product manager, monetisation manager or similar role in gaming industry
- Passion for online gaming and knowledge of the MMORPG market
- Excellent knowledge of the monetization of online and Free-to-Play games
- Experience of Product Lifecycle Management, CRM, A|B and multivariate testing
- Experience of writing clear and detailed specifications and product requirements
- Experience with both quantitative and qualitative analysis methods and application of this experience to product design
- Experience of building strong Stakeholder relationships including dev, QA, art, CS community
- Experience of product design/UX
- Ability to work independently and as part of a team
- Strong presentation and oral/writing skills
- Strong mathematical, statistics, and analytical skills
WHAT WE OFFER
If you join us you can expect a competitive salary and great benefits like fully paid for gym membership, bonus entitlement, private health care, flexible working, cycle repair and fresh fruit delivered to your team every day. We also have GREAT coffee machines, an onsite canteen and pub and an in-studio cinema! Expect regular team events as well as EPIC company-wide parties to celebrate our successes. Does this sound like you? We'd love to hear from you! Get in touch.

Home to the iconic massive multiplayer online role-playing game RuneScape and its extended family of adventurous titles, we’re a leading games studio that places our players at the heart of everything we do.
We’ve welcomed over 250 million players to RuneScape’s world of enthralling fantasy and, together with our team of passionate game creators, our community helps to shape how our games evolve.
From casting votes on future game content to interacting with the studio teams in live streams and in chat, we also join together in person at our celebrated fan convention, RuneFest.
Together with our players, we’re united as one Jagex tribe. Together we’re building deep and engaging multiplayer gaming experiences for players everywhere.
We are now looking for an enthusiastic and experienced external development coordinator to our a growing XDev team. Tasked with making Jagex a successful, creatively bold games developer and publisher by enabling our internal teams to scale up with speed, bring expertise and develop workflows that allow for efficient, flexible and timely delivery.
You will coordinate across disciplines (Art, QA, Localization) as well as supporting all phases of external development such as sourcing, due diligence, working with internal & external teams with planning, scheduling, ensuring the accurate and efficient flow of information. You will also be responsible for updating, maintaining internal XDev database and managing the contract process.
HOW YOU CAN CONTRIBUTE
- Coordinate and facilitate the correct information flow between external and internal teams.
- Organise and run daily meetings between these teams
- Record all notes from meetings, feedback sessions and post in the appropriate internal systems.
- Incoming assets/deliveries are dealt with in a timely fashion. Any problems or delays are communicated quickly and efficiently.
- Proactive in dealing with any blockers.
- Taking part in team discussions about process and producing a clear document for the external teams.
- Scheduling, prioritising and tracking tasks and project details.
- Ensure Shotgun statuses and task assignments are kept up to date.
- Manage the set contract process and ensure relevant parties are notified and the invoices are processed on time.
- Monitor set KPIs and escalate any issues in a timely manner.
- Assisting Studio XDev manager in running and growth of XDev department.
- Championing external development with the internal stakeholders.
- Attending game events to meet new partners and recording their information on internal Xdev database.
WHAT WE NEED
- Proven commercial experience coordinating outsourcing within a game development environment, VFX, digital service or similar industry.
- Excellent communication skills.
- Adept in skilfully juggling tasks.
- Ability to quickly grasp tools.
- Organisation skills with excellent scheduling and task management skills.
- MS word, excel, power point
- Demonstrated project management experience with the ability to problem solve effectively in a fast-paced environment.
- We look for proactive and personable team players.
- Ability to travel within and outside the UK.
WHAT WE OFFER
If you join us you can expect a competitive salary and great benefits like fully paid-for gym membership, bonus entitlement, private health care, flexible working, cycle repair and fresh fruit delivered to your team every day. We also have GREAT coffee machines, an onsite canteen and pub and an in-studio cinema! Expect regular team events as well as EPIC company-wide parties to celebrate our successes.
Does this sound like you? We'd love to hear from you! Get in touch.
Feel like you fit this role, but don’t meet all the requirements? We strive for fresh perspectives, so, as long as you can demonstrate how your attitude and other abilities might make up for any gaps, we would welcome your application!
Jagex are an equal opportunities employer and positively encourages applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates regardless of sex, race, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, marriage or civil partnership, pregnancy or maternity, religion or belief.

Jagex Ltd, the UK's largest developer and publisher of online games, is looking for an experienced Game Integration Engineer to play a key role in growing our platform team. The platform team’s goal is to build a best in class publishing platform to enable the studio to publish new internal and external games.
Reporting to our Director of Engineering, this role forms an integral part of growing the platform team, supporting game development teams to successfully integrate with the platform and working closing with in-house and third-party engineers to shape the future.
This is an amazing opportunity to be at the heart of delivering the studios new publishing platform.
HOW YOU CAN CONTRIBUTE
- Technical contact with game development teams supporting them to successfully integrate with the platform
- Working closely with the Platform team to recommend improvements to features and APIs
- Design and develop easy to use SDKs for the various game engines
- Test new features and APIs by integrating the platform into sample games
- Produce documentation and code samples to support game developers
WHAT WE NEED
- Gamer at heart - we expect our employees to be product focused at all levels
- Expert knowledge and experience in C++
- Game development experience using Unreal Engine
- Experience with integrating game backend service (PlayFab, GameSparks or similar)
- Strong knowledge of RESTful API design and implementation
- Experience working as part of an agile development team
- BS in Computer Science or related field or equivalent experience
WHAT WE OFFER
If you join us you can expect a competitive salary and great benefits like fully paid for gym membership, bonus entitlement, private health care, flexible working, cycle repair and fresh fruit delivered to your team every day. We also have GREAT coffee machines, an onsite canteen and pub and an in-studio cinema! Expect regular team events as well as EPIC company-wide parties to celebrate our successes.
Does this sound like you? We'd love to hear from you! Get in touch.
Feel like you fit this role, but don’t meet all the requirements? We strive for fresh perspectives, so as long as you can demonstrate how your attitude and other abilities might make up for any gaps we would welcome your application!
Jagex are an equal opportunities employer and positively encourages applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates regardless of sex, race, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, marriage or civil partnership, pregnancy or maternity, religion or belief.

Jagex Ltd, the UK's largest developer and publisher of online games, is looking for a talented product owner to play a key role in growing our platform team. The team’s goal is build a new backend gaming platform to allow our new games to integrate with at ease. The platform allows customers to create and manage accounts, payments, microtransaction, cohort testing and reporting. This data will be critical to the product teams, so that they can understand what the customers want and where their pain points are.
This role will be focused on delivering marketing features into the new platform. You will be responsible for understanding the business requirements and translating these into prioritized featured backlogs which you will maintain through the development lifecycle. You must be experienced in writing user stories and acceptance criteria to ensure the development teams deliver to specification and product vision.
You will also be working closely with our game teams to launch new titles by managing the process of integrating 3rd party published games into the new platform.
This is an amazing opportunity to be at the heart of delivering the next generation of gaming platforms.
Main Duties & Responsibilities
• Collaborating with key marketing stakeholders to gather business requirements and prioritise these into the product backlog.
• Managing the product backlogs in keeping them updated with new features and user stories.
• Documenting acceptance criteria at a user story level to ensure the development teams understand what is required.
• Improve the customer journey by optimising the acquisition of new users.
• Help define and craft the marketing product roadmap to improve our customer’s experience.
• Work closely with the development team to deliver marketing applications integrated into the publishing platform.
• Define, analyse and communicate product metrics to help build new features and enhancements.
• Deeply understand our customer’s journey and their underlying needs and pain points.
• Understand current trends in the free to play and subscription game industry.
• Mentor and coach less experienced team members.
Requirements:
- Solid experience working in a product owner capacity.
- Experience in marketing online games.
- Experience working in an agile software development team.
- Experience in developing or using segmentation, attribution or CRM marketing solutions.
- Analytical problem-solving skills with high attention to detail.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
- Highly numerate, comfortable crafting insight from large datasets.
- Expert in lean product management
- You can demonstrate strong interpersonal and organizational skills.
- Strong global project experience and enjoys working with distributed teams
- Built and led product features from concept to full market launch.
- Comfortable working with customers to identify their needs and requirements.
Corporate Responsibilities:
- To behave always in a professional manner, maintaining a positive and conscientious work ethic whilst also demonstrating initiative and determination to get the job done
- To work effectively with colleagues both within the immediate team and across the company whenever necessary
To demonstrate a willingness to adapt and improve to the evolving environment of the company, teams and work requirements
- Manage cost in the best interest of the company weighing quality and velocity

Home to the iconic massive multiplayer online role-playing game RuneScape and its extended family of adventurous titles, we’re a leading games studio that places our players at the heart of everything we do. We’ve welcomed over 260 million players to RuneScape’s world of enthralling fantasy and, together with our team of passionate game creators, our community helps to shape how our games evolve. From casting votes on future game content, to interacting with the studio teams in live streams and in chat, we also join together in person at our celebrated fan convention, RuneFest.
HOW YOU CAN CONTRIBUTE
The Director Publishing Partnerships serves as the strategic lead for Jagex Publishing on key partnerships and is responsible for leading and developing relationships with Publishing business partners who directly help drive player activity for Jagex and assist with our marketing and revenue generation.
Leads on developing/growing partnerships with the following partners/categories:
• Streaming Platforms (Twitch, YouTube)
• Esports (ESL, Dreamhack)
• Console Platforms (PlayStation, Xbox)
• Mobile Platforms (Apple, Google)
• Chipset Mfg (Nvidia, AMD)
• OEMS (Logitech, Razer, Corsair)
• Retailers (Green Man Gaming, Steam)
• Others as determined (Discord)
The Director manages project communication and reporting with key stakeholders and executive management, as well as external stakeholders (partners and third parties). Position ensures strong coordination with the marketing and brand teams to establish beneficial partnerships and programs to further Jagex business objectives. The role also manage a team of Publishing Partnership Managers who oversee key accounts and execute strategies and tactics identified in the long term plan for the department.
- Build strong partnerships with key partners to ensure support for Jagex strategic initiatives.
- Manage the overall Jagex relationship with partners – lead and direct engagement both in the product lifecycle and on a corporate level
- Work closely with stakeholder departments as lead or support (e.g. where an existing relationship existed, etc.) for strategic partnerships and to establish strong intercompany process (RACI, R&Rs) and communications
- Directly drives revenues and in-kind value (media, marketing support, etc.) to the company in the low tens of millions initially with this projected to grow.
- Position will create and own a P&L for partnership programs, meet or exceed KPIs (marketing support, direct spend, etc.)
- Own key metrics such as promotional and editorial support, downloads, advertising revenue, etc.
- Arrange and manage “touchpoint meetings” with strategic partners (e.g. gamescom, GDC, E3) with key execs from partner and Jagex to ensure strategic alignment and build relationships at multiple levels of the organization
- Understand and communicate technology and strategic roadmaps for key partners and work with stakeholders to build those into Jagex strategic and tactical plans
- Work with Brand and Development on acquisition planning and partnerships – for both inbound and outbound media
- Collaborate with Brand Managers, Development and other key stakeholders to ensure strong communication and achievement of goals.
WHAT WE NEED
· Proven commerical experience in a product marketing, brand , business development or similar role in the gaming industry
· Previous experience in relationship management and strong relations with key partners
· Experience with games entertainment
· Thorough knowledge of the PC/mobile/console marketplace, including of Apps, games and OEM business models
· Worked within a team, used to managing and delivery against multiple and complex projects
· Can work with multiple stakeholders to build consensus and create teamwork to achieve goals and success
· Strong communicator
· Strong in Excel and PowerPoint
· Analytical and Logical
· Worked in gaming or entertainment
· Strong desire to be #1 and a ‘self starter’
· Foreign Language (German, French) ideal
WHAT WE OFFER
If you join us you can expect a competitive salary and great benefits like fully paid for gym membership, bonus entitlement, private health care, flexible working, cycle repair and fresh fruit delivered to your team every day. We also have GREAT coffee machines, an onsite canteen and pub and an in-studio cinema! Expect regular team events as well as EPIC company-wide parties to celebrate our successes. Does this sound like you? We'd love to hear from you! Get in touch.

Home to the iconic massive multiplayer online role-playing game RuneScape and its extended family of adventurous titles, we’re a leading games studio that places our players at the heart of everything we do. We’ve welcomed over 260 million players to RuneScape’s world of enthralling fantasy and, together with our team of passionate game creators, our community helps to shape how our games evolve. From casting votes on future game content, to interacting with the studio teams in live streams and in chat, we also join together in person at our celebrated fan convention, RuneFest.
HOW YOU CAN CONTRIBUTE
The Director of 3rd Party will be responsible for evaluation, acquisition and management of new titles for Jagex Publishing. The role will own the development and execution of strategic and tactical plans to ensure the product’s success in the regions including initial evaluation of the title and owning and driving the Greenlight Process. Responsible for defining and implementing the processes and support required for new titles and managing and leading the organization that owns all aspects of the relationships with external game developers and other third parties, including negotiation of agreements, overall due diligence, project Greenlight and review and approval of project milestones and related payments.
The Director manages project communication and reporting with key stakeholders and executive management, as well as external stakeholders (partners and third parties). The position manages a team of game managers, at various levels, and maintains oversight of all 3rd party projects from evaluation to launch wither directly or as the leader of the virtual team. As the Director of 3rd party you will:
- Manage a collection of external game development projects within a defined product category.
- Own the Greenlight process for 3rd Party titles.
- Oversee the overall evaluation, negotiation and launch of 3rd Party titles
- Work closely with the EP of 3rd Party on Developer Agreements (including the creation of product Milestone Schedules) and communicate production related issues to the appropriate parties.
- Manage a team who serve as the main contact with assigned external developers throughout the development and launch of 3rd Party titles
- Budget management against individual product P/L’s.
- Develop strong relationships to establish and maintain a reliable and timely flow of information and materials to all parties as necessary.
- Coordinate and liaise with all necessary departments and divisions to facilitate execution of projects and materials in a professional and client-centric manner.
- Keep all key stakeholders informed of product status and vision through the preparation and presentation of appropriate project materials.
- Participate in the due diligence process for external development partners.
- Own the plan for development and ongoing “green-light” meetings
- Other duties as assigned
WHAT WE NEED
- Extensive experience building and managing strong relationships with developers globally ideally at a Third Party/Second party level
- Previous experience working on a market leading online game title, ideally MTX/MMORPG in focus
- Worked within a team, used to managing and delivery against multiple and complex projects
- Can work with multiple stakeholders to build consensus and create teamwork to achieve goals and success
- Strong leadership and management skills
- Strong communication and collaboration skills
- Strong proficiency in Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint
- Analytical and Logical
- Innovative and creative
- Strong desire to be #1 and a ‘self-starter’
EVEN BETTER IF
- MBA or graduate degree
- Bilingual in Chinese, French, German or other language
WHAT WE OFFER
If you join us you can expect a competitive salary and great benefits like fully paid for gym membership, bonus entitlement, private health care, flexible working, cycle repair and fresh fruit delivered to your team every day. We also have GREAT coffee machines, an onsite canteen and pub and an in-studio cinema! Expect regular team events as well as EPIC company-wide parties to celebrate our successes. Does this sound like you? We'd love to hear from you! Get in touch.

Home to the iconic massive multiplayer online role-playing game RuneScape and its extended family of adventurous titles, we’re a leading games studio that places our players at the heart of everything we do. We’ve welcomed over 250 million players to RuneScape’s world of enthralling fantasy and, together with our team of passionate game creators, our community helps to shape how our games evolve. From casting votes on future game content, to interacting with the studio teams in live streams and in chat, we also join together in person at our celebrated fan convention, RuneFest. Together with our players, we’re united as one Jagex tribe. Together we’re building deep and engaging multiplayer gaming experiences for players everywhere.
We are building towards a highly collaborative DevOps team, using Agile to deliver new product features, and to refine and maintain our key systems. Our platform is based on a microservice architecture with the vision of migrating legacy systems to a more modern, highly-available software stack. We are looking for a true veteran of all things Web to drive Web Development throughout the engineering department. We work with an extensive range of technologies and are actively encouraged to interact with all parts of the business to drive both innovation and to improve the customer experience.
Our Technology Stack
- NodeJS / Typescript - microservices
- Angular / Vue.js / Backbone.js / React – app frameworks
- AWS Cloud / On-prem - infrastructure
- Bamboo / Webpack / Gulp / Terraform – CI / CD / IaC
Your Responsibilities
- Work closely with the Web Engineering Manager to build skillset of Jagex Web Engineers
- Work with multiple cross-functional teams in an Agile methodology
- Lead functional and technical analysis and design of large systems
- Analysis and execution of new and emerging technology and process across the engineering department
- Lead technical discussions
- Utilize your existing experience of continuous integration and deployment to allow for the creation of ephemeral environments and automated testing
- Play an active role in shaping the departments technical principles
- Build exciting and engaging web experiences
- Mentor and support Web Engineers
Essential Requirements
- Gamer at heart -> we expect our employees to be product focused
- Expert in frontend Web technologies
- Expert in mentoring and leading technical discussions
- Experience implementing a DevOps culture
- Experience creating CI / CD pipelines and associated build tools (e.g. Webpack)
- Experience using TypeScript a plus
- Ability to present work to stakeholders
- Experience in automated testing - functionality, security, chaos, load testing etc.
- Public and private cloud experience a plus
- Intermediate experience working in Agile and Lean Frameworks
What we offer
If you join us you can expect a competitive salary and great benefits like fully paid for gym membership, bonus entitlement, private health care, flexible working, cycle repair and fresh fruit delivered to your team every day. We also have GREAT coffee machines, an onsite canteen and pub and an in-studio cinema! Expect regular team events as well as EPIC company-wide parties to celebrate our successes.
Does this sound like you? We'd love to hear from you! Get in touch.
Feel like you fit this role, but don’t meet all the requirements? We strive for fresh perspectives, so as long as you can demonstrate how your attitude and other abilities might make up for any gaps we would welcome your application!

Jagex Ltd, the UK's largest developer and publisher of online games, is looking for a talented, technical product owner to play a key role in growing our platform team. The team’s goal is to build a new backend gaming platform that our new games can integrate with easily. The platform allows customers to create and manage accounts, payments, microtransaction, cohort testing and reporting. This data will be critical to the product teams, so that they can understand what the customers want and where their pain points are.
This role will be focused on delivering analytical features into the new platform. You will be responsible for understanding the business requirements and translating these into prioritized feature backlogs which you will maintain through the development lifecycle. You must be experienced in writing user stories and acceptance criteria to ensure the development teams deliver to specification and product vision. The backlog will vary to being very front end focused to also being backend heavy thereby providing technical solutions to other development teams to leverage data solutions.
You will also be working closely with our game teams to launch new titles by managing the process of integrating 3rd party published games into the new platform.
This is an amazing opportunity to be at the heart of delivering the next generation of gaming platforms.
Main Duties & Responsibilities
- Collaborating with 3rd party and 1st party teams including data analytics & engineering stakeholders to gather business requirements and prioritise these into the product backlog, ensuring development is focused and impactful.
- Managing the product backlogs in keeping them updated with new features and user stories.
- Documenting acceptance criteria at a user story level to ensure the development teams understand what is required.
- Solve problems to make our ingress/egress data pipeline more effective.
- Enable data analysts and scientists to bring insights to Jagex and its partners.
- Help define and craft the data product roadmap to improve our customer’s experience, conveying the vision for the platform to the internal teams.
- Work closely with engineering and development teams to deliver data applications integrated into the publishing platform.
- Define, analyse and communicate product metrics to help build new features and enhancements, optimising with continuous iterations.
- Deeply understand our customer’s journey and their underlying needs and pain points.
- Evangelise data products and advocate the effective use of data.
- Mentor and coach less experienced team members.
Requirements
- Expert experience working in a product owner capacity.
- Expert experience working in analytics via a custom-built SaaS product, ideally with online games.
- Expert experience working in an agile software development team.
- Experience in developing or using analytics tools and AWS or Google services.
- Strong understanding of the uses, marketplace and future trends of analytical platforms.
- Excellent decision making and analytical problem-solving skills with high attention to detail.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills, be the voice of internal and external stakeholders.
- Highly numerate, comfortable interpreting insight from large datasets.
- Fluent with data infrastructure terminology and meaning.
- You can demonstrate strong interpersonal and organizational skills.
- Strong global project experience and enjoys working with distributed teams.
- Built and led product features from concept to full market launch.
- Comfortable working with customers to identify their needs and requirements.
What we offer
If you join us you can expect a competitive salary and great benefits like fully paid for gym membership, bonus entitlement, private health care, flexible working, cycle repair and fresh fruit delivered to your team every day. We also have GREAT coffee machines, an onsite canteen and pub and an in-studio cinema! Expect regular team events as well as EPIC company-wide parties to celebrate our successes.
Does this sound like you? We'd love to hear from you! Get in touch.
Feel like you fit this role, but don’t meet all the requirements? We strive for fresh perspectives, so as long as you can demonstrate how your attitude and other abilities might make up for any gaps we would welcome your application!
Jagex are an equal opportunities employer and positively encourages applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates regardless of sex, race, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, marriage or civil partnership, pregnancy or maternity, religion or belief.

Jagex Ltd, the UK's largest developer and publisher of online games, is looking for an experienced Infrastructure Engineer (DevOps) to play a key role in growing our existing platform’s capabilities.
You will join Tech Services to support and innovate on the platform behind our flagship RuneScape franchise, using DevOps methodologies to stay ahead of the curve and deliver services to our customers quickly and effectively.
This role forms an integral part of our existing development team, supporting test and production environments as well as providing operation insights to determine what good looks like.
HOW YOU CAN CONTRIBUTE
- Build, automate and support development and production environments both on-premise and in the cloud
- Provide operation insights by deploying and maintaining logging, monitoring and alerting solutions
- Collaborate with engineering teams on recommendations and architectural decisions, helping establish DevOps practices that ensure security, scalability, availability and performance of the platform
- Work with engineering teams on improving our continuous integration and delivery pipelines
- Troubleshoot and resolve production issues and work with engineering teams to detect and prevent future issues
WHAT WE NEED
- Hands-on development and mentoring experience
- Proficient in Linux system administration and server configuration (eg. Debian/Ubuntu)
- Strong working knowledge of cloud technologies specifically AWS
- Experience with containerization and container orchestration frameworks (Docker, Kubernetes, Helm)
- Familiarity with log aggregation and monitoring tools (eg. ELK Stack, Datadog, etc.)
- Strong knowledge of continuous integration and delivery principles and tools
- Experience working across internal and remote engineering teams using agile methodologies
- Strong knowledge of software and infrastructure security best practices
- Experience working with configuration management and infrastructure as code tools (Terraform, Ansible, Puppet, etc.)
- BS in Computer Science or related field or equivalent experience
WHAT WE OFFER
If you join us you can expect a competitive salary and great benefits like fully paid for gym membership, bonus entitlement, private health care, flexible working and cycle repair. We also have an onsite canteen and pub! Expect regular team events as well as EPIC company-wide parties to celebrate our successes.
Does this sound like you? We'd love to hear from you! Get in touch.
Feel like you fit this role, but don’t meet all the requirements? We strive for fresh perspectives, so as long as you can demonstrate how your attitude and other abilities might make up for any gaps, we would welcome your application!
Jagex are an equal opportunities employer and positively encourages applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates regardless of sex, race, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, marriage or civil partnership, pregnancy or maternity, religion or belief.

Jagex Ltd, the UK's largest developer and publisher of online games, is looking for a talented Senior Software Development Engineer in Test to play a key role in our ever growing Technical Services Team.
We are looking for a self-driven Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET) to help develop our automation and reporting framework. They will also be empowering our production and development teams to understand and improve product quality by making our tests and reporting the best it can be. Be ready to dive into performance as well, as we prepare to impact the capabilities of first and third-party titles.
HOW YOU CAN CONTRIBUTE
- Iterate on and improve our existing test execution framework
- Work with Engineers to design and create white and black box automated testing frameworks ensuring software is robust, bug free, and achieves desired outcomes and quality bars
- Support Test efforts by developing new automated tools to accelerate testing of new features and interfaces
- Supporting and helping shape the strategy to transition our Test Engineers from day to day manual testing towards automated testing practices
- Design performance tests and collaborate with developers on performance improvements
- Works as part of a team to maintain and support live, highly available software and user journeys.
- Write clean code, learn and contribute to development best practices to produce high quality available software.
- Guide both Test and Software Engineers on unintended scenarios and edge cases to reduce the need for re-work
WHAT WE NEED
- Extensive experience as a Software Development Engineer in Test
- Experience moving from manual testing to automated testing
- Solid software development experience, ideally with Java but not required
- Expert in end-to-end test automation for Web Apps, API’s and the related frameworks (e.g. Selenium, Jest, Puppeteer, TestCafe)
- Solid experience of Continuous Integration systems
- Solid experience with load testing (e.g. JMeter)
- Experienced with the full software development lifecycle and Agile/Scrum methodology
- Experience of context-driven testing principles
- Gamer at heart -> we expect our employees to be product focused at all levels
EVEN BETTER IF
- Experience with multiple OO (e.g. Python or C#) languages is a plus
- Experience with Mobile testing (e.g. Appium) is a plus
- Experience with oracles, heuristics and generation of testing ideas is a plus
- Experience in NodeJS and ReactJS is a plus
WHAT WE OFFER
If you join us you can expect a competitive salary and great benefits like fully paid for gym membership, bonus entitlement, private health care, flexible working, cycle repair and fresh fruit delivered to your team every day. We also have GREAT coffee machines, an onsite canteen and pub and an in-studio cinema! Expect regular team events as well as EPIC company-wide parties to celebrate our successes.
Does this sound like you? We'd love to hear from you! Get in touch.
Feel like you fit this role, but don’t meet all the requirements? We strive for fresh perspectives, so as long as you can demonstrate how your attitude and other abilities might make up for any gaps we would welcome your application!
Jagex are an equal opportunities employer and positively encourages applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates regardless of sex, race, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, marriage or civil partnership, pregnancy or maternity, religion or belief.

Jagex Games Studio develop and publish immersive living games, with RuneScape being our largest and most successful franchise to date.
Tech Services play an integral part in delivering these experiences by implementing and maintaining external and internal game systems, payment services, public APIs and websites.
We are looking for an experienced engineer to join our team and become a key contributor in a group of software veterans, supporting our vision to be scientifically creative and to inspire our players.
WHAT WE DO
We are a highly collaborative DevOps team using Agile to deliver on new product development, and to refine and maintain key systems.
Our platform is based on a microservice architecture with the vision of migrating legacy systems to a more modern, highly available software stack.
We work with an extensive range of technologies, and are actively encouraged to interact with all parts of the business to drive both innovation and improved customer experience.
OUR CORE TECHNOLOGY STACK
* Java / Spring Boot - microservices
* Kafka / ActiveMQ - messaging
* ELK / Grafana / Flume - monitoring
* PostgreSQL / CouchBase / Redis - persistence
* Bamboo / Ansible – CI and deployments
HOW YOU CAN CONTRIBUTE
* Develop and deploy highly available, high scale systems
* Look for ways to add value beyond immediate deliverables by working with Leads and Product Owners to identify and prioritise work
* Continually seek to refine and streamline software development practices and our CI/CD pipeline
* Resolve production issues and mitigate on-call support causes
* Mentor engineers through pairing, design sessions and code reviews

Jagex Ltd, the UK's largest developer and publisher of online games, is looking for an experienced Software Engineer to play a key role in growing our platform team.
The platform team’s goal is to build a best in class publishing platform to enable the studio to publish new internal and external games.
Reporting to our Director of Engineering, this exciting role will work within a cross functional team to deliver the platform. Working closely with in-house and third-party engineers, you will be engaged in architecture design, cutting edge technologies, evaluating software solutions and programming to become a key member of the studio in supporting the team to deliver against its goals.
This is an amazing opportunity to be at the heart of delivering the studios new publishing platform.
HOW YOU CAN CONTRIBUTE
- Develop high-performant, scalable and secure RESTful microservices using
- Participate in all aspects of agile software development including design, implementation, testing, and deployment
- On-Call support to troubleshoot and resolve out-of-hour production issues
- Continually seek to help define architectural improvements and streamlining software development practices
- Look for ways to add value beyond immediate deliverables by working with leads and product owners to identify and prioritise work
WHAT WE NEED
- Gamer at heart - we expect our employees to be product focused at all levels
- Expert knowledge and experience in Java and Spring framework
- Experience designing and developing RESTful microservices
- Experience working as part of an agile development team
- Ability to pick up new tools and technologies as needed
- BS in Computer Science, related degree, or equivalent practical experience
WHAT WE OFFER
If you join us you can expect a competitive salary and great benefits like fully paid for gym membership, bonus entitlement, private health care, flexible working, cycle repair and fresh fruit delivered to your team every day. We also have GREAT coffee machines, an onsite canteen and pub and an in-studio cinema! Expect regular team events as well as EPIC company-wide parties to celebrate our successes.
Does this sound like you? We'd love to hear from you! Get in touch.
Feel like you fit this role, but don’t meet all the requirements? We strive for fresh perspectives, so as long as you can demonstrate how your attitude and other abilities might make up for any gaps we would welcome your application!
Jagex are an equal opportunities employer and positively encourages applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates regardless of sex, race, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, marriage or civil partnership, pregnancy or maternity, religion or belief.

Overview
Art Producer - Runescape
A little bit about the role:
Home to the iconic massive multiplayer online role-playing game, RuneScape, and its extended family of adventurous titles, we’re a leading games studio that places our players at the heart of everything we do.
We’ve welcomed over 250 million players to RuneScape’s world of enthralling fantasy and, together with our team of passionate game creators, our community helps to shape how our games evolve.
From casting votes on future game content, to interacting with the studio teams in live streams and in chat, we also join in person at our celebrated fan convention, RuneFest.
RuneScape is very much a “Living Game”, an ever evolving product on PC and now Mobile platforms. We delight our players with a variety content throughout the year.
The Art Producer is an important role, tasked with overseeing the processes to ensure our team of 25+ Artists delivers on time and to the ever increasing quality within the studio.
Check out some of our latest artwork on ArtStation.
A little bit about who we seek:
- You identify as a Producer, but you have a background or solid understanding of great Art production processes.
- Your path from Art into a Production/Management role felt natural, thanks to your great leadership, organisational and communication skills.
- You can talk about the lessons you’ve learned from managing multiple people, deadlines and projects and you’re excited by the chance to implement these within Runescape.
- You’re a champion for high levels of transparency, preferably in a Kanban environment and you’ve honed these skills within significant past project(s), all the way to launch.
- You’re able to serve as an invaluable partner to Runescape’s Art and Production leadership.
WHAT WE OFFER
If you join us you can expect a competitive salary and great benefits like fully paid-for gym membership, bonus entitlement, private health care, flexible working, cycle repair, and fresh fruit delivered to your team every day. We also have GREAT coffee machines, an onsite canteen, pub, and an in-studio cinema! Expect regular team events as well as EPIC company-
wide parties to celebrate our successes.
Does this sound like you? We'd love to hear from you! Get in touch.
Jagex are an equal opportunities employer and positively encourages applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates regardless of sex, race, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, marriage or civil partnership, pregnancy or maternity, religion or belief.

Home to the iconic massive multiplayer online role-playing game RuneScape and its extended family of adventurous titles, we’re a leading games studio that places our players at the heart of everything we do.
We’ve welcomed over 250 million players to RuneScape’s world of enthralling fantasy and, together with our team of passionate game creators, our community helps to shape how our games evolve.
From casting votes on future game content, to interacting with the studio teams in live streams and in chat, we also join in person at our celebrated fan convention, RuneFest.
Together with our players, we’re a united Jagex tribe. Together we’re building deep and engaging multiplayer gaming experiences for players everywhere.
HOW YOU CAN CONTRIBUTE
This is a fantastic opportunity for a character artist looking for a varied and challenging role that encourages creative input, team work and personal development. The successful applicant will join an experienced team of artists; working on our flagship title RuneScape.
Working within our talented art team, you will:
- Create, develop and refine high quality 3D character assets ranging across creatures, humans and weapons
- Work with a variety of industry standard tools including Zbrush, Maya, 3D coat and Marmoset Tool bag 3 to produce assets
- Work closely with Concept Artists and Animators to ensure models are designed and optimized to meet the style for PC and Mobile platforms
- Work closely with Content Developers to ensure assets are correctly implemented in the game engine
- Work with Tools Developers to troubleshoot and improve existing in-house tools
- Provide feedback to all character artists in the team in group reviews and more junior members of the team in day to day production
- Ensure game ready assets conform to the house style and are maintained through all projects within your own and colleagues work, via feedback
WHAT WE NEED
- An excellent understanding of human anatomy, shape and form language
- An excellent level of knowledge using Zbrush, Maya, 3D coat and Photoshop
- An excellent understanding of low poly modelling, UV mapping and hand painted textures
- A positive communicator with the ability to work with staff from all disciplines
- Excellent organisational and time management skills
- Ability to be flexible and adapt to change when requested
- To take direction and work with the Lead Character Artist and Art director to maintain game style and quality
- To be proactive and take responsibility for keeping assets optimised, organised and functioning in-game as required
- To maintain a good level of communication with all relevant team members throughout asset production and implementation
EVEN BETTER IF
- Traditional 2D art skills
- Degree in computer games art or relevent course
- Experience with PBR workflows
- Experience in current game engine Character pipelines. UE4. Unity etc
We can only consider applicants who include evidence of their work in the form of a portfolio/blog.
In your portfolio/blog we expect to see:
- Sculpting examples, preferably showing an example of human anatomy and a more stylized example
- Game ready meshes with wire frame examples
- Texture sheet examples including albedo/diffuse map and normal map if available
WHAT WE OFFER
If you join us you can expect a competitive salary and great benefits like fully paid-for gym membership, bonus entitlement, private health care, flexible working, cycle repair, and fresh fruit delivered to your team every day. We also have GREAT coffee machines, an onsite canteen, pub, and an in-studio cinema! Expect regular team events as well as EPIC company-wide parties to celebrate our successes.
Does this sound like you? We'd love to hear from you! Get in touch.
Jagex are an equal opportunities employer and positively encourages applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates regardless of sex, race, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, marriage or civil partnership, pregnancy or maternity, religion or belief.

Home to the iconic massive multiplayer online role-playing game RuneScape and its extended family of adventurous titles, we’re a leading games studio that places our players at the heart of everything we do.
As the home of living games, we’re committed to the development of exciting new titles to build upon our successes.
To do so, we’re committed to building world class teams capable of best in class Art and Animation.
The Lead Character Artist is an important piece to that jigsaw, and represents a career defining opportunity for somebody to share our vision and have a meaningful impact.
A little bit about the role:
As the lead Character Artist, you will be responsible for setting and maintaining character direction together with the art direction. In addition, you will also be responsible for building, mentoring and training your character team to hit the expected quantity and quality. This role gives a rare opportunity to make a significant impact on a game from conception to completion.
A little bit of what we are after:
You are a highly skilled individual who can create, deliver and guide others to produce the highest standard character art. You provide invaluable support to the Art Director and have a deep understanding of modern modelling and texturing pipelines as well as processes within your discipline.
A Lead is a skilled contributor with the ability and desire to manage direct reports and to be able to effectively time manage themselves and others in their sub team to deliver the results expected by the game’s art direction. Leads work closely with the Directors to establish the vision and document any style guides or pipelines in support of that goal. They will be expected to be hands-on and perform the duties of their discipline as needed while also taking on the lead-specific duties as outlined below.
Key Responsibilities:
- In addition to the duties performed by a Senior Character Artist, the lead must be able to perform the following duties dependent upon the focus required at each stage of development;
- Provide leadership, direction and line management to the character team
- Responsible for the delivery of highest quality in game character art
- Collaborate with Tech Art and Code to ensure pipelines and tools are effective, optimal and capable of delivery
- Review assets to maintain consistent quality and provide feedback and critique
- Plan, schedule and structure discipline tasks that feed into AD’s master schedule
- Document and communicate technical specifications and visual benchmarks to support the games artistic vision to both internal and external artists
- Produce production guides breaking down in detail steps to reproduce assets within style
- Support, promote and build good team and studio morale in an open, creative environment
- Together with AD/ AAD contribute toward discipline hiring plans and recruitment process
- Manage outsource partners or freelancers as required
What you need to show us:
- working knowledge of Maya, Z-Brush and Substance
- Portfolio evidence of ‘hands on’ outstanding AAA Character art
- Mastery of anatomy
- Understanding of both realism and stylised styles and breakdowns
- Thorough knowledge of end-to-end in character workflow and related disciplines
- Enough understanding of technical art to communicate and resolve character related issues
- Comfortable with running individual, group review and critique sessions
- Able to time manage, prioritise and track both themselves and direct reports
- Ability to communicate clearly, and concisely to team, peers and management
- Willingness to transition between asset production and line management
- Able to level up junior to senior artists through teaching and mentoring
- Professional attitude and work ethic
- Excellent soft skills and teamworking
- Working knowledge of Unreal engine
- *BONUS* Character Concept Design
- *BONUS* Rigging and skinning
- *BONUS* Traditional sculpting
WHAT WE OFFER
If you join us you can expect a competitive salary and great benefits like fully paid for gym membership, bonus entitlement, private health care, flexible working, cycle repair and fresh fruit delivered to your team every day.
We also have GREAT coffee machines, an onsite canteen and pub and an in-studio cinema!
Expect regular team events as well as EPIC company-wide parties to celebrate our successes.
Does this sound like you? We'd love to hear from you! Get in touch.
Feel like you fit this role, but don’t meet all the requirements? We strive for fresh perspectives, so as long as you can demonstrate how your attitude and other abilities might make up for any gaps we would welcome your application!
Jagex are an equal opportunities employer and positively encourages applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates regardless of sex, race, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, marriage or civil partnership, pregnancy or maternity, religion or belief.

Home to the iconic massive multiplayer online role-playing game RuneScape and its extended family of adventurous titles, we’re a leading games studio that places our players at the heart of everything we do.
We’ve welcomed over 250 million players to RuneScape’s world of enthralling fantasy and, together with our team of passionate game creators, our community helps to shape how our games evolve.
From casting votes on future game content, to interacting with the studio teams in live streams and in chat, we also join in person at our celebrated fan convention, RuneFest.
We work closely with our players, building a deep and engaging multiplayer gaming experiences for players everywhere.
HOW YOU CAN CONTRIBUTE
This is a fantastic opportunity for a UI Artist looking for a varied and challenging role that encourages creative input and technical direction.
The successful applicant will join a newly formed team of experienced UI Artists & UX Designers working on our flagship title RuneScape. They will be joining the project at a pivotal time in its development and have an opportunity to shape the next era
RuneScape is an evolving product on PC and soon to be Mobile platforms, with players that have an insatiable thirst for content, meaning there’s always something new and exciting to get your teeth into. Your role would involve collaborating across multiple disciplines to deliver high quality UI's.
Working within our talented art team, you will:
- Collaborate with RuneScape developers to define and implement innovative UI solutions.
- Conceptualise and create high quality 2D art assets in Photoshop.
- Execute UI visuals from concept, through creation to final developer hand-off.
- Conceptualise UI designs that bring simplicity and usability to complex game designs.
- Create wireframes & user flows to effectively communicate interaction and design ideas.
- Check out some of our latest artwork on ArtStation
WHAT WE LOOK FOR
- Strong graphic design skills showcased by portfolio examples.
- Experience in creating a wide range of UI elements for both PC & Mobile platforms.
- Expertise in Photoshop
- Experience in creating wireframes & user flows.
- Understanding of user-system interaction.
- Ability to present and discuss designs with peers and game designers.
- Up-to-date with UI trends & techniques.
EVEN BETTER IF
- You have a good understanding of UX.
- You are familiar with engines such as Unity or Unreal.
- You have a degree in Graphic Design/Game Art or equivalent.
- You have traditional 2D art skills
Please note:
We can only consider applicants who include evidence of their work in an online format such as personal website, blog, Github, or online portfolio. Break downs of your design process a big plus.
WHAT WE OFFER
If you join us you can expect a competitive salary and great benefits like fully paid-for gym membership, bonus entitlement, private health care, flexible working, cycle repair, and fresh fruit delivered to your team every day. We also have GREAT coffee machines, an onsite canteen, pub, and an in-studio cinema! Expect regular team events as well as EPIC company-wide parties to celebrate our successes.
Does this sound like you? We'd love to hear from you! Get in touch.
Jagex are an equal opportunities employer and positively encourages applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates regardless of sex, race, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, marriage or civil partnership, pregnancy or maternity, religion or belief.